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Keep Fighting for the DREAM!
Posted on Nov 30 2017
Since September 5, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients, Dreamers and allies have been fighting for their lives – their lives here, in the homes they have made, in their schools and jobs, with their children and families. The fight continues in the courts and in Congress.
Congress can act now to safeguard Dreamers and give them a path to permanent residence and citizenship. That is what the overwhelming majority of Americans want.
Congressional leadership is delaying consideration of the DREAM Act and DACA relief. The administration continues to demonstrate the bad faith and cruelty in wrongfully denying applications for DACA renewal, detaining DACA recipients, and making hollow promises that they take back the next day.
Across the country, DREAMers and allies mobilize daily. They demonstrate in Washington and in big and small cities from coast to coast. Their phone calls and emails and text messages flood into Congress daily. They demand a clean DREAM Act – that means legislation to protect DREAMers that is not weighed down with additional measures that punish other immigrants or fund an extravagant and ineffective border wall.
The pressure is on – and members of Congress feel it.
December is crucial. Relief for DREAMers can be part of the year-end budget bill. Or it can be delayed and denied all the way through March 5, when DACA officially ends.
Every day of delay means more DREAMers losing their protection as work permits and individual DACA status expires. An estimated 122 DREAMers see their DACA status expire each day, leaving them without work permits, sometimes without valid drivers licenses, and always vulnerable to deportation back to countries they left as young children. That’s more than 10,000 DREAMers from September 5 to December 1, and more every single day.
You can help to keep the pressure on Congress to act now and pass a clean DREAM Act. Call early or late. Call often. Make sure that your representatives know the very high importance you place on protecting DREAMers through passage of a clean DREAM Act. Here are some places to start:
- Click here, enter your address, and follow prompts to call your members of Congress.
- Click here to email your members of Congress.
- Follow us on Facebook to learn about local and national actions in December and beyond.