Reports came out last week that Trump will decide any day whether to keep Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. DACA recipients, or Dreamers, together with immigration lawyers, activists and allies gathered in front of Tucson City Hall, on Aug. 29, to say they’re not going anywhere.


The Obama-era ruling protects close to 800,000 people whose parents brought them into the country, undocumented, as children. DACA makes it legal for them to work, get a driver’s license, pay in-state tuition to college and to live their lives without fear of deportation.

“We continue to hear these threats against DACA,” said Jessica Rodriguez, a member of the humanitarian organization Living United for Change in Arizona. “This is not going to stop. We’re going to continue to take the streets. We’re going to continue to call on our officials. We are not going to stop.”

Immigration attorney Mo Goldman said to focus energy toward local elected officials.

“Call out representatives like Rep. McSally, who has said that she supports the DACAmented community and the Dreamers,” he said. “She’s been out there. She said it, and she needs to be held accountable. She needs to be on the phone talking to the White House.”

This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2017.

4 replies on “Dreamers #HereToStay”

  1. To start with DACA is unconstitutional and economically is am obvious DRAIN on jobs for American Citizens. There is an estimated 800 THOUSAND DACA recipients in the US (more signing up every day.) That is 800 THOUSAND jobs American Citizens DON’T have. The MSM and Democrats would have you believe that all 800 thousand are not taking jobs Americans want (we’ve heard that speech for years). Wrong (this is another falsehood told to the American people. They’re not all picking strawberries they take good Jobs.Good enough jobs to buy homes, put their kids through college. Now Democrats and illegal alien activists brag DACA recipients have good jobs,are buying homes, paying taxes, etc.

    The GOAL (Democrats just haven’t figured this out yet) is for the AMERICAN CITIZENS to be employed, trained, sending their kid to college, buying homes and paying taxes. When I see the motivation by Democrats for illegal aliens using DACA I could only wish they had that same motivation for the citizens. It’s not the responsibility of the citizens of this country to support, pay for training, educate citizens from other country’s. There is also the public safety concerns with illegal aliens including DACA recipients. The bottom line is there should be no illegal aliens in our country. Deportation will save jobs and decrease the expense of illegal aliens.

    The price of illegal immigration both in expense and human suffering.. How many people have to pay for the moral beliefs of others?

    http://www.foxnews.com/…/dreamer-accused-brutally…

    http://www.foxnews.com/…/portlands-sanctuary-policies…

    http://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/…/over-the-hill…/

    http://www.wnd.com/…/illegal-alien-charged-with-raping…/

    *30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons. At 21,000 per

    year expense per inmate in Federal Prison—do the math.

    * Using the Obama created program- DACA, 800,000 illegal aliens (more signing up every day) has funneled 800 THOUSAND jobs away from American Citizens.

    * 2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.

    * $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally they cannot speak a word of English.

    *$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

    *$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens, I repeat 3 MILLION a DAY to process Illegals in the Criminal justice system.

    *$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as SNAP (food stamps),WIC, & free school lunches for illegal aliens.

  3. i dont really agree with bob jones but laws are laws and we need to obey them whether we agree with them or not

  4. Fear: fear of the unknown and fear of change.

    Fear has become the driving force used by nearly everyone, regardless of political leanings. This constant and corrosive tactic has reduced people’s ability to use critical thinking to determine underlying threats to our collective liberties and freedoms.

    Fear invokes the fight or flight instinct in humans and the results cannot always be predictable, but for some, this disruption is all that is necessary to further their agendas of hate and violence.

    We need to stop listening to the rhetoric and focus on actions; actions of our elected representatives and actions of those we are told to fear.

    Yes, the world can be a scary place and there are evil people intent upon our destruction, but knowing who those people really are is the first step in defending ourselves from being used in our own destruction as a nation and as a people.

    “Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la Paz.”
    — Benito Juarez Garcia
    (Among the individuals, as well as among nations, respecting the other people’s rights leads to peace.)

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