Civil groups of the campaign “The Home is here” (“Home is Here”) launched a platform to monitor young immigrants arrested by the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) of the United States despite being protected by the DACA program, which until now adds almost 20 cases of “dreamers”.
A new reveals that immigration agents have arrested almost 20 DACA beneficiaries with valid status in recent months.
The associations, accompanied by legislators of the Hispanic Caucus of the Congress, denounced at a conference that the administration of Donald Trump is “ignoring” the protections of these “dreamers” under the deferred action for those arrived in childhood (Daca) that the former president Barack Obama established in 2012.
“The moment we face now, when migratory agents have arrested almost 20 DACA beneficiaries and the head of the DHS (Department of National Security) is openly violating the protections and going behind the beneficiaries is shameful,” said Deya Aldana, director of United We Dream campaigns.
The campaign arises after the alarms that ignited the arrest of Catalina ‘Xochitl’ Santiagoa DACA beneficiary, by the immigration authorities in Texas, in addition to the accusations of the ICE of the lack of transparency in the identification of the arrested.
In this count released on the website https://homeishere.us Hispanic “dreamers” are included who were arrested in the New York area as the Ecuadorian student Derlis Chusin coatizes Queens, the Venezuelan student Dylan Lopez Contreras Del Bronx, the Hondurans Gerson Josué Santamaría Turcios of the town of Rhinebeck, and the outstanding university student Sara Lizeth Lopez García from Long Island, who ended up being deported to Colombia.
Also, in this list of “dreamers” arrested by ICE are immigrants who lived in California, Connecticut, Florida, Virginia, Rhode Island, Kansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Arizona, New Mexico, Alabama, Michigan, Utah, Minnesota and Texas.
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It should be noted that in his first government (2017-2021), President Trump looked like a legal battle, without success, that reached the Supreme Court to eliminate the program, which protects eligible immigrants from deportation and gives them a work permit.
«Daca has been an undeniable economic and moral success. Tragically, today it is under serious threat, and given the mass popularity of the program, we, the American people, need to know this, ”said Todd Schulte, president of the organization Fwd.us.
Democratic activists and legislators, who also denounced “the arrest so far of dozens of young immigrants,” accused the DHS of “openly ignoring” Daca’s protections and, in addition, to focus on going behind their beneficiaries.
The groups stated that the authorities “routinely focus” on the “dreamers” during immigration checks at airports and outside their homes, and after their arrest they are placed in a deportation process.
«Each member of the Congress must demonstrate to each ‘Dreamr’ and immigrant that we know they are part of the fabric of our nation. We must demand DHS responses in the disappearance of Daca’s beneficiaries, ”said representative Dalia Ramírez, from Illinois.
The arrest of the “dreamers” occurs in the midst of the mass deportation campaign of Republican President Donald Trump, whose administration has doubled the number of people in ICE custody, with more than 58,000 detainees in September.
