In the wake of Friday’s shutdown vote in the Senate, which dozens of Dreamers watched from the public viewing galleries, they claimed victory.
“We know that the public is on our side,” Cata Santiago, a Dreamer, said in a statement. “We are calling for the immigrant community and our allies to take to the streets immediately to demand that Congress pass legislation guaranteeing permanent protection for immigrant youth NOW.”
On Sunday, as senators talked of a compromise to reopen the government now with action on immigration next month, Dreamers rallied in a park across the street from the Senate, saying the deal was unacceptable.
“Promises won’t protect anyone from deportation because delay means deportations for us,” said Greisa Martinez Rosas, advocacy director for United We Dream. “We need Congress to deliver a breakthrough on the Dream Act to protect immigrant youth now.”
Dreamers began setting up the shutdown showdown last year, soon after President Trump announced a phaseout of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals deportation amnesty that protects some 690,000 of them. They told Democrats to use their filibuster powers in the Senate to deny government funding unless Dreamers were accorded full legal status.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/21/dreamer-shutdown-shows-power-of-illegal-immigrants/
“We know that the public is on our side,” Cata Santiago, a Dreamer, said in a statement. “We are calling for the immigrant community and our allies to take to the streets immediately to demand that Congress pass legislation guaranteeing permanent protection for immigrant youth NOW.”
On Sunday, as senators talked of a compromise to reopen the government now with action on immigration next month, Dreamers rallied in a park across the street from the Senate, saying the deal was unacceptable.
“Promises won’t protect anyone from deportation because delay means deportations for us,” said Greisa Martinez Rosas, advocacy director for United We Dream. “We need Congress to deliver a breakthrough on the Dream Act to protect immigrant youth now.”
Dreamers began setting up the shutdown showdown last year, soon after President Trump announced a phaseout of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals deportation amnesty that protects some 690,000 of them. They told Democrats to use their filibuster powers in the Senate to deny government funding unless Dreamers were accorded full legal status.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/21/dreamer-shutdown-shows-power-of-illegal-immigrants/
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