What is #DACA and who are #Dreamers?
#DACA is short for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—a program that allows young people brought to the US as children to live, study and work in the US. We call them the #Dreamers. #DreamActNow
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#Dreamers’ applications go through a vetting process to ensure they aren’t a national security threat and applicants must be students, high school graduates, or have a GED. Only after this are#Dreamers eligible for work permits and, in some states, drivers licenses.#DreamActNowShow this thread -
“The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, there can be no
#DACA without the desperately needed wall…” -Trump Our president is holding nearly 800,000#Dreamers hostage for a wall he promised during the campaign that will not make our nation safer.#DreamActNowShow this thread -
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#DreamActNow doesn’t pass,#Dreamers’ legal status will expire in March. What happens if their status lapses? Under Trump’s immigration policies our#Dreamers may be deported from the only home they’ve ever known.Show this thread -
The Republicans have ignored the
#Dreamers' humanity and the Democrats have lacked the courage to fight. That ends now. This month. Can you hear us,@SenFeinstein?#DreamActNowpic.twitter.com/4eYtkRg2IE
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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They aren’t pro life, merely pro birth.
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I don't even think they're pro-birth. I think they're pro-fetus.
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