The Trump White House has indicated they will announce a six month delay before ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) for over 800,000 young immigrants in our country. At the same time the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been gradually taking steps to end the Temporary Protected Status program (TPS) that benefits more than 300,000 people and THIS WEEK, DHS will issue another decision about whether it will begin to phase out TPS for 2 more countries, Sudan and South Sudan. Things do not look good and there is a lot of anxiety among those directly and indirectly impacted because the work permits granted through DACA and TPS have sustained the lives of hundreds of thousands of families across the country.
WE CANNOT REMAIN SILENT!
While immigration policy is an issue that ONLY Congress can finally fix, we can expect and DEMAND MORE of our local elected officials to SPEAK OUT and CHALLENGE the failure of the U.S. Congress to address the issue, the heartless and immoral implementation of a broken and unjust immigration system by the President and his operatives, and the complete failure of our media to facilitate an honest and comprehensive public discussion of the causes of immigration.