Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Dreams Deferred
with
Oscar A. Chacón co-founder and executive director of Alianza
Americas (formerly known as National Alliance of Latin American
& Caribbean Communities), an umbrella of immigrantled and
immigrant serving organizations based in the United States of
America, dedicated to improving the quality of life of Latino
immigrant communities in the US, as well as of peoples throughout
the Americas. Oscar served in leadership positions at the Chicago
based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights, the
Northern California Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the
Boston based Centro Presente, and several other community based
and international development organizations. Oscar is a frequent
national and international spokesperson on transnationalism,
economic justice, the link between migration and development,
migrant’s integration processes, human mobility, migration policies,
racism and xenophobia; and U.S. Latino community issues
and
Chia Chia Wang, the organizing and advocacy director for the American
Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program, whose goal is to
achieve policies that respect the rights and dignity of all immigrants,
including a fair and humane national immigration policy.
and
Our ‘Dreamer’ Issac, born in Ghana and a Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrival (DACA) beneficiary he tells his story and puts a human face on
those who seek equal rights and justice as immigrants as refugees as
migrants, as Dreamers!
President Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era program that shields
young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an “amnesty-
first approach” and urging Congress to pass a replacement before he begins
phasing out its protections in six months. As early as March, officials said,
some of the 800,000 young adults brought to the United States illegally as
children who qualify for the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,
will become eligible for deportation. The five-year-old policy allows them to
remain without fear of immediate removal from the country and gives them
the right to work legally.
Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the change at
the Justice Department, both used the aggrieved language of nativists of
virulently anti-immigrant activists, arguing wrongly, but aggressively that those
in the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native-born Americans by
usurping their jobs and pushing down wages. Mr. Trump said in a statement
that he was driven by a concern for “the millions of Americans victimized by
this unfair system.” Mr. Sessions said the program had “denied jobs to
hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to
take those jobs.” But Oscar Chacón , Chia Chia Wang and Issac came out
swinging and explode these falsehoods, calculated to whip up hysteria in in
support of the demagogic Trump regime.
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