On April 6th, 2018, popular YouTube group BuzzFeed uploaded a video interview with Bambadjan Bamba, an actor who had a role in the currently extremely popular movie Black Panther. In the interview, Bamba reveals that he is a DREAMER, and after learning of Trump's decision to rescind DACA, he decided to use his status and... Continue Reading →
DACA Dreamers belong in the United States. Dreamers work and attend college, paying required taxes that amount to an estimated 2 billion dollars in state and local taxes per year. Sending any Dreamer back to a country they are, many times, not familiar with is unfair and even dangerous. Many DACA recipients are in the... Continue Reading →
On September 25th, 2017, YouTube group we are mitú uploaded a video that consisted of a conversation between Emmanuel Ramos Barajas, a Mexican to immigrated to America, and his mother. While in the background of a montage of many other Mexicans and tidbits of their daily lives, the conversation provides a very hopeful message. One of... Continue Reading →
What are the benefits of DACA? Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed that the DACA program is pushing Americans out of work. Opponents of DACA contend that legalization will come at a cost to U.S.-born workers. They claim that U.S.-born workers’ well-beings should be prioritized. However, immigrants are not taking the jobs of Americans. The University... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfSLjNU9dBo The video above follows the lives of 6 medical students and reveals their thoughts on the possibility of losing their work permits and having to go back to their native countries. At least 65 DACA recipients are in medical school, and half of them are enrolled in the Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago.... Continue Reading →
DACA has cemented itself as the centerpiece for most of our political news at the conclusion of this Easter Sunday. President Trump has headlined a variety of media outlets by demanding that "DACA is dead," and that all talks for a deal have been tabled. FOX news recently hosted "Angel Moms," people who have had... Continue Reading →
DACA and DREAMERS: The Road to Citizenship 