Tag: DACA

The Obama-era program has granted protection from deportation and a work permit to at least 700,000 undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children.

New York now joins 18 other states who have passed various bills over the years.

If the root cause of this problem, the law-breaking companies, is not addressed then the problem will continue to plague America.

In the end, isn’t it time to challenge the notion that people in general, and immigrants in particular, can be easily divided into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys?

Trump’s policy plans will end up hurting many people’s jobs, even though one of the biggest planks in his campaign platform was his promise to make jobs “great again” in America.

These DACA young people are our neighbors, our colleagues, and our classmates.

These men are running on progressive tickets, supporting Medicare for All and DACA.

Another round of punitive disruption-for-disruption-sake Trumpism – except for the innocence of the targets. DACA children, brought into the only country they know, are now reduced to ideological bargaining chips to distract from endless failures. Trump populism? Little more than an unfeeling tyranny of the shrinking minority.

Tens of millions of Americans – many aging and white – are willing to sabotage young people rather than to accept racial diversity.

Trump will only back down if faced with massive grass-roots pressure.