DACA

anexplanationofunfortunateevents:

DACA, or “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,” is an Obama Administration policy which shields undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children from arbitrary deportation. It’s not
amnesty or citizenship, but it let about 800,000 young people come
out of the shadows to live as members of their communities. These people are referred to as DREAMers in
reference to the DREAM Act, which would give young people like them a
path to permanent residency. 

Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump
administration are phasing out the program and will end it in six
months, rationalizing this cruel decision with a pack of racist lies. 

There are a lot of impressive things to be said about DREAMers, but
honestly, this isn’t about respectability.

They shouldn’t need to be exceptional, even though many of them are. They’re Americans. They’re
people who live here. They’re not American
citizens yet, but they’re Americans and doing this to them is
wrong.

The “reason” this is happening now is that a bunch of conservative state
attorneys-general threatened to sue Trump if he didn’t end the DACA
program by today.

The actual reason this is happening now is that Trump (or the Breitbart crew acting on his
behalf) lobs a hate grenade whenever the Trump-Russia investigation
picks up steam. It sucks up the oxygen in the press and it
forces Democrats to do triage and shift energy and attention to the
acute well-being of vulnerable people. This doesn’t have to be a
grand strategy on his part – he’s just a big fucking bully who
lashes out whenever he feels threatened at anyone he sees as an easy
target. (See also: issuing a ban on transgender
military servicemembers on Twitter while his campaign manager’s
home was being searched.)

Well, that and he’s a sadist who surrounds himself with sadists.
The cruelty is the point.

What you can do to help:

• There’s still six months to fix this legislatively. Contact your
  senators and congressional representatives and tell them to pass the
  Dream Act. 
• Contact state officials and tell them you want them to stop this.
  Reasonable (so, Democratic) governors and attorneys-general should join with New York
  Governor Cuomo and Attorney General Schneiderman in suing the federal
  government to protect DREAMers.
• Show up! Find a local demonstration with United We Dream.