Tag: DACA

We have to be willing to embrace new ways of thinking about creating healthy communities, in the same way we’ve changed our habits during the current pandemic.

"We took our power to the streets, the hallways of Congress, to the highest court in the land and we won."

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.