There’s power in standing up for each other The recent release of a number of unjustly detained immigrants shows there’s power in resistance and speaking out for our neighbors. In Texas, Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira and Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago recently won their release from ICE detention after being swept...
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More and more Dreamers are getting swept up in the federal government’s anti-immigrant agenda despite holding work permits and protection from deportation under the popular and successful DACA program. In southern California, a DACA recipient and rideshare driver who has called the U.S. his home for two decades, faces...
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After claiming that he’d even reach out to Democrats to “work something out” for Dreamers, Trump is now telling hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who grew up here to self-deport Sadly, no real surprise here. Donald Trump and his anti-immigrant purge crew have made it clear to DACA...
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Caroline Dias Goncalves, the University of Utah student who was abducted by Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agents following a routine traffic stop earlier this month, has finally been freed after two agonizing weeks in ICE custody. In remarks following her release, the Dream.US scholar described her 15 days in...
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DACA has been “a beacon of hope,” allowing young immigrants to “dream, live, and thrive without fear,” Dreamer Claudia Quiñonez said during a Washington, D.C. press event with members of Congress and allies marking the program’s 13th anniversary this week. Under the popular and successful program, hundreds of thousands...
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Jun 6, 2025
DACA and beneficiaries of the popular program are celebrating 13 years of successes Many Dreamers currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have delivered for America and themselves. These bright young people who are American in every way except full legal status have transitioned from...
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Dreamer Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who has lived in the U.S. since she was four, “should never have been arrested,” her attorney said. “She should never have been put in this situation.” While Georgia Dreamer Ximena Arias-Cristobal is now free from ICE detention, her nightmare is nowhere close to over. During...
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Last year, the Biden administration did the right thing by issuing a rule that expanded ACA coverage to nearly 130,000 uninsured DACA recipients. Not only do Dreamers pay billions in tax dollars every year to help fund federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, it makes public health sense...
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Like you, we’re still taking in the results of November’s presidential election and what it means for the undocumented community in the U.S. when the new administration takes office in January. Many in our communities are uncertain of what the future holds. But as we try to regroup and...
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Hundreds gathered in New Orleans on Thursday ahead of a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing in Texas v. United States, a GOP-led lawsuit that could determine the future of hundreds of thousands of American families that have been kept together thanks to the popular and successful DACA program....
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