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Today My Heart Breaks
As some FPS readers know, I’ve been involved in immigrant rights (on a local and national level) for many years. We’ve had defeats, but also some victories. That fight has brought me to the streets and to the Capitol where I’ve lobbied members of Congress to pass legislation to protect Dreamers. This is such a sad day in America. I can only hope the darkness will lead to light.
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Wendy, thanks for your work on this. I am so ill over people who think because there were born here they are somehow more American and more deserving to live here than these children and young adults. I am also so disgusted by human beings being called “illegal”. I faxed my senators using a text service I recently found. It was so easy.
I’m so heartened by your activism, Claire. That’s how we will all change it.
And now Trump is backtracking, which is bringing a chance to make DACA permanent. Thankfully some good news in what was a sad day for basic goodness.
The legislative road is so long. I hope you’re right about it being good news.