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“I am one of the 86 percent.”
Posted on Jan 23 2018
Press release—January 23, 2018—Yesterday we did not get the protection for DREAMers that 86 percent of Americans, including 79 percent of Republicans want. Nor did we get a long-term budget for other critical needs, just another kick-the-can-down-the-road, three-week extension that nobody wants.
Today is a new day and we start again. “In Minnesota, we don’t let a foot of snow stop us,” said John Keller, executive director of the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM). “When it blows and snows, we just keep shoveling. We are not going to let one more bad vote in DC stop us—we will keep on fighting, keep on calling, keep on pushing ahead.”
Dreamers teach our children and care for our family members. They are leaders in our companies and brave members of our military. Every day that passes, another 122 DREAMers lose DACA protection and work permission. Starting very soon, 1,200 Dreamers will fall out of status each and every day, will lose their jobs, and will face deportation to countries they have never known. Every day the shutdown continues without a solution devastates Dreamers, their families, their communities, and our economy.
“This is a national disaster, not a natural disaster,” Keller said. “This disaster is made by politicians, and it can be reversed by political action. We need to keep calling every single Senator and Representative to tell them again: I am one of the 86 percent of all Americans who want legislative protection for DREAMers.”
Congress needs to act NOW. We call on everyone in Minnesota to call every Minnesota Congress member and Senator. Tell them protecting DREAMers is a priority for you and you want them to make a clean DREAM Act their priority, too.
For every DREAMer and every family member and every ally and activist—we are in this battle for as long as it takes.