From the National Immigration Law Center (http://www.nilc.org):
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that DACA has been terminated.
The administration has turned its back on the DACA recipients who had earlier been assured they had “nothing to worry about” and could “rest easy.” The nearly one million young people currently with DACA and all immigrant youth now face fear of deportations tearing their families apart and sending them away from the only country they call home.
Please add your name to our urgent petition at http://action.nilc.org/page/s/urge-congress-to-pass-the-dream-act calling on members of Congress to support a legislative solution to permanently protect Dreamers from deportation.
It’s time for Congress to make a choice in this defining moment for our country: stand with the people or stand with the administration on the wrong side of history.
For the administration, it appears not to matter that they are pushing bright students, community activists, skilled and talented business-owners, nurses, engineers, and so many others back into the shadows. But it should matter to our members of Congress. With your help, we’re going to send that message loud and clear.
It took massive organizing and grassroots power to achieve DACA in the first place. This is not the end, but the beginning of what we can do. Right now, the bipartisan Dream Act awaits support in Congress. This legislation would provide permanent protections and create a path to citizenship for Dreamers, rather than another temporary one.
Republicans who sit on the fence now have a choice: they can either stand on the side of extremists or stand with the people and pass a long-term solution for the 1.8 million Dreamers in this country — keeping families together instead of tearing them apart.
Thank you for fighting back.
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