FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September v, 2017

CONTACTS
Hayley Burgess, National Clearing Law Center, [email protected], 202-805-0375
Daniel Altschuler, Make the Road New York, [email protected], 917-494-5922
David Chen, WIRAC at the Yale Law School, [email protected] , 908-240-6252

New York Dreamer Challenges Trump Administration's Termination of DACA

NEW YORK — A young immigrant New Yorker and Make the Route New York (MRNY) went to federal court today to challenge the Trump administration's termination of the Deferred Action for Babyhood Arrivals (DACA) plan. In a lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Courtroom for the Eastern District of New York, Martín Batalla Vidal, a DACA recipient, and MRNY are asking permission to amend their original complaint in club to argue that President Trump's actions violate federal law and the equal protection guarantee of the Constitution.

The case, Batalla Vidal v. Baran, et al, was originally filed on behalf of Batalla Vidal and MRNY in 2016 challenging the courtroom decision in United States v. Texas that blocked Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) and the expansion of DACA from going into event. Batalla Vidal and MRNY are represented past Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Constabulary Center, and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law Schoolhouse.

Near 800,000 young people now have DACA. They have provided personal and confidential information to the U.S. authorities and gone through a rigorous application process and background check which has immune them to receive a two-yr work permit and relief from displacement.

In the more than than five years since DACA was start implemented, the plan has been a resounding success. According to a recent survey, 91 percent of DACA recipients are currently employed, and their average earnings have increased during the time that DACA has been in identify.

The benefits of DACA extend across the recipients themselves. Virtually iii quarters of all DACA recipients have a U.Southward. citizen spouse, sibling, or child. Terminating the program would create emotional and economic harm for these family unit members as well.

Batalla Vidal's family unit is no different. Batalla Vidal is 26 years former and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He came to the U.South. from United mexican states when he was seven years old. He works in a nursing home and rehabilitation center, and financially supports his mother. He is a member of Make the Route New York.

Martin Batalla Vidal, plaintiff and member of Make the Road New York, said, "DACA has changed my life. It's allowed me to pursue my dream of standing my education and supporting my family, with the peace of heed that I won't be separated from the people I love the nigh. Losing DACA would accept a dramatic impact on my life. It would prevent me from being able to take on major professional or academic goals, brand me unable to piece of work legally, and put me at run a risk of being deported and separated from my family. This decision past Donald Trump is a direct set on on immigrant youth like me and on our families, and it's based on one thing: the racist beliefs of a president who has been attacking Latinos and Mexicans since the first day of his campaign."

Members of Make the Road New York, including staff members, equally well as nonmember clients, take filed DACA applications that remain outstanding. Equally an employer, MRNY volition lose significant staff resource; a number of employees rely on DACA to be able to piece of work at the organization.

Javier H. Valdes, Co-Executive Manager of Make the Road New York, said, "DACA recipients, in addition to being core members of our customs and families, take been absolutely key to our organization since 2012. From our work organizing youth and adult members to our legal department to our English classes, DACA recipients have been at the forefront of delivering vital services to our membership and clientele. Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions' decision today is not simply racist and immoral — it as well will practise serious damage to our organization."

"The Trump administration's zeal for anti-immigrant and racist actions continues today, and with more devastating consequences. Terminating DACA betrays the almost 800,000 immature people who have put their faith in the government, throwing their lives into terrifying chaos. Our fight continues on behalf of these brave young people, and together we will piece of work tirelessly to live upwardly to this country's ideals of justice and dignity for all," said Mayra Joachin, staff chaser with the National Immigration Constabulary Center.

"The bravery of Mr. Batalla Vidal and of the members of Make the Road New York today reveal that immature immigrants volition not recede into the shadows as the Trump Administration would like them to do. They are here to stay and will continue fighting today'southward draconian and unlawful conclusion to eliminate DACA," said David Chen, law student intern in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School.

Today's filing is available at www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Batalla-Vidal-v-Baran-PMC-Letter-2017-09-05.pdf.

The recording of today's conference call regarding this filing is available at www.nilc.org/defenddaca-2017-09-05/.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 September 5, 2017

CONTACT
 Electronic mail: [email protected]
Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149
Hayley Burgess, 202-384-1279

NILC Volition Fight Aslope Immigrant Youth and Allies

WASHINGTON — Today the Trump administration appear the rescission of the transformative DACA program, which for over five years has successfully immune close to 800,000 immigrant youth to pursue their full potential and contribute more than fully to their communities. President Trump decided to end the program despite repeatedly telling immigrant youth not to worry.

The Section of Homeland Security will cutting off all new applications immediately. Those whose DACA permits expire betwixt now and March 5, 2018, can utilize for a two-year renewal by Oct. five.

Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement:

"This is a defining moment for our country. We are existence called upon to choose which side of history we are on: Are nosotros going to stand with young people who have grown up in our country and are striving to accomplish their dreams? Or are nosotros going to let policymakers to erect barriers that block youth from contributing their best to this land, which is their home?

"President Trump allowed DACA to continue for his first vii months in office. He told immature immigrant people that they could 'rest easy' and non fear deportation. Now Trump has bowed to his anti-immigrant advisors and base—putting politics to a higher place people, detest above reason.

"This is a morally bankrupt choice. Trump's decision to pull the carpeting out from under nigh a one thousand thousand young people who are contributing to their communities across the country will just serve to destabilize these immature people, their families, and their communities.

"DACA applicants relied on a promise past the federal government to permit them to live and piece of work without fearfulness of being deported if they came forward, paid a fee, passed a background check, and were accounted eligible afterwards meeting certain requirements. The National Immigration Police force Center will vigorously defend their rights—in the court, if necessary—should the government renege on that hope.

"We call on educators, faith leaders, businesses, labor unions, health professionals, and all people of good conscience—regardless of political party affiliation—to stand up on the right side of history and past the side of immigrant youth and their families. We must practice everything in our reach to ensure they are safe, empowered, and can proceed to thrive.

"Though we are heartbroken and enraged, it is crucial in this moment to recall the tremendous organizing power and energy that won DACA in the first place. Now, more than ever, we must all stand up and fight alongside immigrant youth who are fighting to maintain their livelihoods and their sense of security and belonging in this country. DACA is merely the beginning of what we can exercise.

"Nosotros urge all members of Congress to swiftly pass the bipartisan Dream Human activity 2017. However, nosotros are steadfast in our commitment to advancing the rights of all low-income immigrants and volition not accept whatever bill that aims to further militarize border communities, ramps upward Trump'southward mass deportation forcefulness, or diminishes workers' rights. The lives of immigrant youth are not a bargaining flake."

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 31, 2017

CONTACT
Hayley Burgess, NILC, [email protected], 202.805.0375
Henrike Dessaules, IRAP, [email protected], 646.459.3081
Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, [email protected], 212.284.7347
Clare Kane, WIRAC, [email protected], 360.584.7384

Government Settles in First Lawsuit Filed Against Trump's Muslim Ban

NEW YORK — The Trump administration today settled with the plaintiffs in the kickoff legal challenge to the president'due south executive gild of Jan. 27, 2017, which sought to bar travelers from certain majority Muslim countries from entering the Usa and to dramatically curtail the admission of refugees. The settlement ensures that all travelers who were barred from the state on the footing of the ban and have not since returned to the Usa are informed of their right to reapply for a visa and provided with a list of free legal services organizations that can help them do then.

The settlement came in the instance of Darweesh five. Trump, which was filed equally a nationwide class-action in federal district courtroom in New York City on the morning of Jan 28, 2017, just hours later the administration's first Muslim ban went into effect. The ban had plunged airports across the country into chaos every bit the Trump assistants haphazardly implemented its discriminatory policy, leading to the separation of families and exclusion of refugees fleeing persecution. By the evening of Jan 28, the court had issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from removing anyone from the country on the basis of the Muslim ban. As a result, the administration's effort to bar Muslims and refugees from the land was halted barely 24 hours later it went into result.

Having succeeded in halting detentions under the Muslim ban, the lawsuit then sought to address the harm done to those already excluded in the cluttered starting time days of the Muslim ban. In the settlement announced today, the authorities agreed to contact all individuals who had been barred from entry every bit a result of the ban and have not since reapplied for a visa or entered the United States and to inform them of their right to reapply for a visa. The government volition also provide a list of pro bono immigration legal help providers bachelor to assist with the visa application. The written notice volition be provided in English, Arabic, and Western farsi. The settlement also requires the U.Southward. Justice Department to coordinate the processing of new applications for whatever affected individuals identified by the plaintiffs' attorneys who are seeking to return to the U.S. in the adjacent three months.

The plaintiffs include two Iraqi men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, who had been unjustly detained at JFK Airport due to the Muslim ban. They are represented past the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) at the Urban Justice Center, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) at Yale Police force Schoolhouse, and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.

When he was informed of the settlement, lead plaintiff Hameed Darweesh said, "It means a lot to me to be in America. The U.s. is a great country because of its people. I'm glad that the lawsuit is over. Me and my family are safe; my kids get to school; we can at present live a normal life. I suffered back dwelling, only I have my rights now. I'm a human being."

Representatives from each group gave the following statements:

Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice Center
"On January 27, Hameed Darweesh and thousands of others attempted to legally enter the United States. They were detained, handcuffed and, in many cases, deported. This settlement forces the regime to individually reach out to everyone illegally kept out of the country and begin to remedy that incorrect. But information technology is only a first step — nosotros continue to fight confronting the illegal, discriminatory, and united nations-American provisions of the second Muslim ban."

Esther Sung, staff chaser, National Clearing Law Heart
"This settlement is a victory for the individuals who were unlawfully detained and deported equally a result of the president's Muslim ban, but our fight continues. The Muslim ban doesn't just violate the Constitution, it flies in the face of dearly held values to live gratis from fright of persecution based on where we're from or how we pray. This case may have ended, but nosotros remain more than committed to the fight at present than e'er before."

Lee Gelernt, Deputy Manager, Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union
"Although the government dragged its feet for far too long, it has finally agreed to practice the right thing and provide those excluded nether the showtime Muslim ban with proper discover of their correct to come to the United States. While this closes one chapter in our challenge to Trump'due south efforts to found his unconstitutional ban, we go on our legal fight confronting Muslim ban ii.0 at the Supreme Court in October."

Yusuf Saei, Student, Worker and Immigrant Rights Advancement Clinic (WIRAC), Yale Law School
"This fight began when thousands of Americans showed upwards at airports across the country to support refugees and protest religious discrimination. This settlement closes a chapter on the Trump administration's catastrophic Muslim ban. Information technology delivers a measure out of fairness to people who were illegally and discriminatorily barred from entering the country, but the fight against prejudice and hatred is not over."

A re-create of the settlement agreement is available at www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Darweesh-v-Trump-Settlement-Understanding-2017-08-31.pdf.

More information on Darweesh five. Trump is available at www.nilc.org/darweesh-v-trump/.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25, 2017

CONTACT
Juan Gastelum, [email protected], 213-375-3149
Adela de la Torre, [email protected], 213-400,7822
Bruna Bouhid, [e-mail protected], 202-850-0812

Immigrant Youth and Advocates Respond to Trump's Consideration of Programme to Kill DACA, Outline Escalation of Fight to Defend Program

WASHINGTON — Following a news report that the Trump assistants is "seriously considering" ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, immigrant youth, immigrant and civil rights advocates, and progressive leaders today renewed their call to President Trump to keep the DACA in place and provided the latest updates on ongoing work to defend the plan. A recording of today's call is available hither.

Below are quotes from participants in today's press conference:

Greisa Martinez Rosas, policy and advocacy director, United We Dream
"It is time for all people to organize with fierce and unapologetic decision to counter the savage hate being pushed by Texas Attorney Full general Ken Paxton and white supremacists in the White Firm. Every Republican elected and administration official who has tried to accept it both ways is now on notice. You either oppose the drive to kill DACA or you lot are complicit in our suffering."

Marielena Hincapié, executive managing director of the National Immigration Law Heart
"At that place is no expert moral, legal, or political reason to go rid of this wildly successful program. More than 100 legal scholars, countless organized religion leaders and economists, forth with business organisation and education leaders, take spoken in defense of the programme. In addition, polls testify that vii out of 8 voters support this program. DACA is one of those rare instances where doing the right thing is besides the politically popular thing."

Damaris Gonzalez, Texas DACA recipient
"I promise that everyone with DACA, every Texan of censor, and all people who care about immigrants, people of color in our state, and the future of this country rising upwards and say enough is enough. Nosotros volition continue to expose Ken Paxton for his attacks on our humanity and Trump for pandering to his white supremacist supporters. This is our dwelling house, and we're not going anywhere — nosotros are here to stay!"

Vanita Gupta, president and CEO, Leadership Conference of Ceremonious and Human Rights
"It would exist a grave moral and legal error for the Trump administration to cease the DACA plan. We must non permit the hate and violence we saw in the streets of Charlottesville to become the guiding strength for policymaking in this country. Targeting innocent immigrant young people would only deepen the moral crisis President Trump has plunged his administration into."

Jung Woo Kim, lead organizer of NAKASEC's 22-day round-the-clock action in front of the White Business firm to defend DACA
"I am very scared correct now. If DACA goes away, I won't be able to work, pay my bills or anything. Where would I be then? How would I survive? We need everyone to come bring together us at the White Firm today every bit nosotros fight together to relieve DACA and our future!"

Ezra Levin, co-executive managing director of Indivisible
"This assistants has been systematically targeting immigrants, refugees, people of color. There is a clear connexion between Trump'southward attacks on DACA and his comments on Charlottesville, hints at pardoning Sheriff Arpaio, and the Muslim ban. This is all one and the same fight, and it's office of Trump's white supremacist agenda. We and the half-dozen,000 Indivisible groups across the country volition be standing with our partners who've been leading this fight to say that DACAmented youth vest here, and they are hither to stay."

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Dreamers' Stories Show What Would Be Lost if DACA
Were to End

THE TORCH: CONTENTS By NILC staff
August 25, 2017

Getting a driver's license, finding a job, going to college—these are milestones in life that nigh of us take for granted, just for more than 800,000 young people, these things are only possible because of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).

Nosotros asked DACA recipients, forth with their friends and family members, to tell us what DACA means for them. The responses poured in, and the message was plain: DACA changes lives.

Fatima, for instance, was able to launch a successful career in interior design in New York Urban center afterwards getting DACA, and Yanet got her nursing banana license and started working in an acute rehabilitation facility in Arizona.

Maria, of Phoenix, bought a home and started her own business, and Shahrzad loves paying taxes considering she's proud to contribute to her country.

DACA recipients are part of the everyday textile of our communities. They're pilus stylists, software developers, dental hygienists, and more. To pull the rug from nether their feet would not but be absurdly barbarous, information technology would undermine the whole economy. Reports gauge that catastrophe DACA could reduce the U.Southward. gross domestic production (Gdp) by $433.four billion over the adjacent 10 years, simply that doesn't even brainstorm to touch the personal losses people could suffer if families are torn apart.

With rumors over again circulating that the Trump assistants may before long stop DACA, information technology is more important than ever to share these stories and remind everyone how critical this program is for individuals and our communities. We urge everyone to share these stories, and their ain, with the hashtag #DefendDACA. There's no time to waste. DACA is under real threat, and we must show that nosotros won't permit it get without a hell of a fight.

You can find the DACA stories we've collected and so far here. We continue to add together more than daily, and so bank check back oft.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 24, 2017

CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149
Adela de la Torre, 213-400-7822

NILC Response to Reports of Possible Stop to DACA

WASHINGTON — News media reported today that the Trump administration is seriously considering ending the Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

DACA allows immigrant youth who meet certain requirements to live and work in the U.South. temporarily. Since the program started in 2012, information technology has had a transformative touch on the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth and their communities, and tremendous benefits for our land as a whole.

Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement:

"If Trump decides to end the successful DACA program, it would indicate that he has decided to follow the advice of the more extremist voices in the White House and entreatment to the white supremacists in his base rather than to courageously pb in this moment. For more than 5 years, DACA has improved the lives non just of the young people who benefit from it, merely of millions more than who alive and work with immigrant youth each and every twenty-four hour period.

"During more seven months of being operative during the Trump administration, the DACA program has worked just as well as information technology did under the Obama administration. Trump's possible decision to curve to the will of a few state attorneys general who gave him a legal ultimatum would exist shortsighted politically, economically, and societally.

"After so much damage, Trump has an opportunity to do the correct affair past keeping this program in place. He shouldn't squander it.

"DACA has been a lifeline for almost 800,000 young people who have been able to flourish considering the federal authorities gave them a take chances to live, report, piece of work, and grow in the land they call domicile, without the fright of being deported. Nosotros will employ every tool available inside and outside the courtroom to protect the rights of DACA recipients and all of our immigrant family and community members."

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2017

CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149
Patrick O'Shea, 202-384-1276

The Lives of Immigrant Youth Are Not a "Bargaining Chip"

WASHINGTON — News media reported today that the Trump administration is considering continuing protections for undocumented immigrant youth in commutation for a legislative parcel that would make our land'south immigration organization dramatically worse. The proposed trade-offs reportedly include funding to enact mass deportation and build a wall on the U.S.-United mexican states edge, equally well every bit radically reducing legal immigration.

Ignacia Rodriguez, immigration policy advocate with the National Immigration Police force Center, issued the following argument:

"Every single twenty-four hour period since Trump was elected, Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and other immigrant youth have had to think about what could happen to them. Volition they lose their jobs? Will they be forced to leave the U.South., like Juan Manuel Montes, even if they accept been granted DACA and the program remains in place?

"In the midst of this grueling dubiety, the White House is reportedly considering using them as bargaining chips for making a bargain. It would exist shameful, in any case, to use people's lives and bones demand to feel secure in their homes as means for leveraging a political win. But to do this in lodge to enact a white nationalist blueprint is repulsive.

"President Trump has said he would 'piece of work something out' for immigrant youth 'that's going to make people happy and proud.' You don't reach that by gambling with the lives of nearly 800,000 people. If yous admit that DACA works, so defend it and leave it lonely."

(For more information on the case of Juan Manuel Montes, a DACA recipient whom U.South. Customs and Border Protection illegally expelled from the U.S. earlier this year, visit www.nilc.org/montes-5-uscbp/.)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 17, 2017

CONTACT
E-mail: [email protected]
Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149
Hayley Burgess, 202-384-1279

Argument on the Passing of Juan Osuna

WASHINGTON — The National Immigration Law Center mourns the passing of Juan Osuna, former manager of the Executive Part for Clearing Review (EOIR) and a onetime acquaintance attorney general for the U.S. Section of Justice'due south Civil Division, who passed away unexpectedly this week in Falls Church, Virginia.

Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following argument:

"Juan Osuna will be remembered as a tireless and dedicated abet for justice for immigrants. He had an unparalleled knowledge of our clearing courtroom system. He was thoughtful, scholarly, and kind in his pursuit of a just and off-white court system.

"Juan was an exemplary public servant whose commitment to fairness shone through throughout his tenure. The immigrant advocacy community lost a fierce ally this week. Our thoughts are with his wife, Wendy Young, the president of Kids in Need of Defence force (KIND), and his family unit during this difficult time."

For more information about Osuna's career and life, please visit https://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/immigration/b/immigration-police force-blog/archive/2017/08/xvi/in-memoriam-juan-p-osuna.aspx?sthash.jluem8jE.mjjo.

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On Its Fifth Ceremony, Permit's Celebrate and #DefendDACA!

THE TORCH: CONTENTS By Michelle Saucedo, NILC summer intern
August 15, 2017

Happy 5th DACA anniversary!

I cautiously celebrate this milestone as I recognize DACA'south success, while grappling with the concern near its possible rescission and what that could hateful to and then many people in this country. Since DACA's implementation in 2012, over 800, 000 people have benefited from information technology, getting a take chances to work with authorization, forth with a reprieve from the threat of deportation.

Although its benefits are granted only for a renewable catamenia of two years, many people took a gamble on the programme, putting their faith in the aforementioned government that had failed to deliver on immigration reform and continued to separate families. DACA was not the ultimate goal or desired solution, but it was a welcome reprieve for so many undocumented people who yearned to move ahead and provide for themselves, their families, and the country they telephone call abode.

While I was a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)–accredited representative at Asian Americans Advancing Justice–L.A., I had the privilege of assisting DACA applicants and their families and got to learn about the life-changing opportunities that having deferred action brought them. I witnessed families sacrifice their savings so their child could use. I felt the determination of applicants who continued their GED classes while working full fourth dimension. I saw their hope that all these investments would be worthwhile. Now, working every bit a summertime law clerk at NILC, I continue to meet the resilience of this population and their allies.

The mental, emotional, and financial investments in DACA proved worthwhile for Naomi (not her bodily proper noun). Every bit a high schoolhouse senior, she was set to graduate several months before she and her parents decided to move frontwards with her DACA application. She had been accepted to several schools and had received a scholarship to attend a small liberal arts college. Nonetheless, to make good on its offer, the college needed her to provide a valid Social Security number. After she got DACA, Naomi could show her valid piece of work let and Social Security number to every school she considered attending, and she now is on track to become the first person in her family to graduate from college. DACA has helped so many similar Naomi and thousands of others who've been able to obtain higher-paying jobs to back up their families, render to school, own a business, practise the career they studied and worked so hard for, and accomplish many other goals.

But since Donald Trump became president, affected people's and advocates' DACA-related concerns have shifted dramatically. We've gone from working to safeguard DACA'due south shine implementation to fighting dorsum efforts to discredit and dismantle the programme. Although the president, when he first took office, stepped dorsum from his entrada promise to repeal DACA—instead indicating that he has sympathy for "Dreamers"—the volatility of his assistants and threats to the program made past ten conservative land attorneys full general demonstrate clearly that nosotros've got to proceed to vigorously protect DACA. An cease to DACA would not only exist a devastating loss to those who currently enjoy its benefits, but also to the U.S. economy. The Center for American Progress (CAP) estimates that catastrophe DACA would issue in a loss of $460.3 billion from the national Gdp over the next decade and would remove an estimated 685,000 workers from the nation'southward economy. On the flip side, standing DACA could increase the estimated yearly contribution of DACA recipients to country and local taxes, to $two.45 billion.

Just the principal reason to protect DACA is that it would be inhumane to deprive hundreds of thousands of people from the freedom, opportunities, and goals they accept had admission to because of DACA's benefits. At a time when about 8 in 10 voters, including nigh iii-quarters of Trump voters, support allowing "Dreamers" to stay in the land, it is important to emphasize that DACA is a policy that has safeguarded immigrant youth and that we still need a permanent solution.

Whether because of political force per unit area or because their conscience is calling them to do the right thing, several members of Congress have appear bipartisan legislation to protect DACA-eligible people and others who arrived to the U.S. every bit minors. These new versions of the Dream Human action and similar legislation proposing a path for some to regularize their condition may seem promising, just while we expect for Congress and the president to come up with a clean, broad legislative solution, it is important we #DefendDACA and its beneficiaries.

DACA taught me and so much nearly the resilience and strength of the customs I serve. I'm inspired by the heartfelt words of my former DACA customer who said, "We've fabricated information technology this far, and nosotros'll keep going. We just have to keep fighting." Nosotros definitely must keep fighting—fighting without distractions and without fright. Nosotros must defend DACA until nosotros have a existent opportunity for permanent change. We must keep to support and stand in solidarity with our immigrant communities and exist ready for the challenges to come.

DACA was a win by and for the immigrant customs. Let's retrieve those lessons of force as we forge ahead.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2017

CONTACT
Adela de la Torre, 213-400-7822, [e-mail protected]

President Trump'due south Silence on White Supremacism Is Deafening

LOS ANGELES — White supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned fierce today when neo-Nazis and others engaged in violent assaults confronting counter-protesters and people of color. These acts resulted in at to the lowest degree one fatality and several injuries. In his remarks on today'southward events, President Trump blamed "many sides" for today'due south atrocities.

Below is a statement issued past Reshma Shamasunder, deputy director of the National Immigration Law Center:

"Today, people who stood for fairness, justice, and equality were physically harmed. Our thoughts and prayers are with these courageous leaders and their families.

"President Trump'due south failure to unequivocally condemn white supremacists and the function they played in contributing to this violence is shameful and dangerous. Through discriminatory policy, messaging and, at times, deafening silence, President Trump is sending a articulate message to communities of colour that our freedom, our rights, and our identify in this state are less of import than those of others.

"This is not acceptable. We stand firmly with the brave leaders fighting for justice and dignity for all of us, regardless of where we were born, the color of our skin, how we pray, or whom we love. The Trump administration and elected officials should do the aforementioned."

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