EPISODE · Nov 14, 2019 · 49 MIN
Dreamers (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)
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he Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready on Tuesday to side with the Trump administration in its efforts to shut down a program protecting about 700,000 young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.The court’s liberal justices probed the administration’s justifications for ending the program, expressing skepticism about its rationales for doing so. But other justices, including President Trump’s two appointees, indicated that they would not second-guess the administration’s reasoning and, in any event, considered its explanations sufficient. New York Times“Immigrant rights are not just a Latino issue, but an African issue, a Korean issue, and an American issue,” explained Bambadjan Bamba, an actor in the made-for-TV movie Black Panther and a Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) native. That point came through another way: The D.C. demonstration included a march of Asian migrants, wielding a large banner written in Korean.“There are close to 25,000 U.S.-born children who have at least one parent who is a Dreamer,” LCLAA posted on its website. “DACA recipients pay $5.7 billion in federal taxes, and $3.1 billion in state and local taxes, every year.” People's World
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