DACA Digest: August 25, 2017
Curated news from the DACA Time team
Each week, the DACA Time team provides you with curated news and stories related to DACA and immigration to help raise awareness of the problems we’re trying to solve and the people we’re trying to help.
Raising awareness is a crucial component of social impact:
- How can you change something no one knows anything about?
- What support systems already exist for the folks we’re trying to help?
- Where do we see examples of success that inspire us?
- Perhaps most importantly, what victories, no matter how tiny, can we celebrate this week?
Beyond the social enterprise space, beyond those directly impacted by DACA and its far-too-often arduous application process, answering these questions helps us better understand how our actions are all connected.
DACA “Deadline” Looms
Last night, Axios published a story with this ominous headline:
While the Washington Post published a bit more measured article:
As speculation and uncertainty continue to rise in intensity, the looming September 5 deadline set by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is very real, with the livelihood and perhaps in some cases the very lives themselves of Dreamers hang in the balance.
Support for DACA and Dreamers nevertheless continues to be overwhelming, with several groups rallying, marching, and generally turning up the volume of the narrative surrounding DACA and the basic rights of Dreamers to remain in their homes.
Tennessee:
Massachusetts:
Virginia:
South Carolina:
Wisconsin:
Kentucky:
Even Republicans in the House of Representatives urge the President to leave DACA intact until a permanent, legislated solution is in place:
And of course the Dreamer support ecosystem as a whole continues its unified message that DACA should be here to stay:
DACA Time Updates
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the Program, the DACA Time team continues to make waves in Columbus.
Our Chief Dreamer, Nathali Bertran, pitched DACA Time’s mission and strategy to a packed room at the SEA Change Ohio pitch event. You can read the results here:
From the article:
If you’re a Dreamer, this is further validation that the ecosystem of social enterprises in Columbus stands with you. We as a community recognize your barriers, your fears, and your perils, and we will strive to remove them however and whenever we can.