Dreams Deferred - 28:59
written by building bridges radio
at Friday, September 15, 2017
Dreams Deferred
with
with
Oscar A. Chacón
co-founder and executive director of Alianza Americas,
an umbrella of immigrant led and immigrant serving
organizations based in the United States of America,
dedicated to improving the quality of life of Latino
co-founder and executive director of Alianza Americas,
an umbrella of immigrant led 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
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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