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Agreement Reached to Protect Young Immigrants

September 17, 2017 October 10, 2018

“Senior Democrats stunned Washington on Wednesday by claiming that they had agreed with Donald Trump on a plan to protect so-called Dreamers, young immigrants who were brought illegally to the US as children.

Senator minority leader Chuck Schumer and House counterpart Nancy Pelosi, who dined with the president at the White House, said they had reached an agreement to quickly enshrine into law protections for the nearly 800,000 immigrants who benefited from Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme.

A person briefed on the meeting said Trump agreed with the Democrats to pair the bipartisan Dream Act, which provides a path to permanent residency for undocumented immigrants brought to the US illegally as children, with some form of border security – excluding Trump’s promised border wall.”

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Action, Immigration, RVUSA Priority Issues

Tell Congress to Co-sponsor the Dream Act

September 9, 2017 September 9, 2017

The President has announced the end of DACA. The human impact of 800,000 young people losing their permission to live and work in the United States is beyond heartbreaking – it’s cruel. Every one of them will lose their work authorization and be at risk for deportation. Passing the bipartisan 2017 Dream Act would protect them.

Click here and tell your members of Congress to co-sponsor the Dream Act today.

Action, Immigration, RVUSA Priority Issues

Urge Lawmakers to Stand Up for Dreamers

September 9, 2017 September 9, 2017

Click here to learn about how to urge lawmakers to protect the rights of Dreamers – our fellow Americans.

Educational Resources and Tools, Immigration, RVUSA Priority Issues

5 Questions about DACA Answered

September 9, 2017 September 9, 2017

Nearly 800,000 young immigrants are in limbo following the President’s decision to rescind the Obama-era program known as DACA.

Click here to read more about the program, and what happens next.

Educational Resources and Tools, Immigration, RVUSA Priority Issues

Who are the Dreamers?

September 9, 2017 September 9, 2017

A Typical ‘Dreamer’ Lives in Los Angeles, Is From Mexico and Came to the U.S. at 6 Years Old

President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, an Obama-era policy created to shield young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Click here to read more about who the roughly 800,000 DACA beneficiaries are.

Immigration, News and Events, Regional and National News, RVUSA Priority Issues

“Dreamer Program” at Risk

August 29, 2017 October 10, 2018

“Ten Republican state attorneys general in June urged the administration to rescind the DACA program, while noting that the government did not have to revoke permits that had already been issued.

If the federal government did not withdraw DACA by Sept. 5, the attorneys general said they would file a legal challenge to the program in a Texas federal court.

The 10 who signed the letter represent Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.”