#dacamented

[humanrightsconnected]

It has been 10 years ago since applications under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were accepted for the first time! As we celebrate this milestone, make sure also to read our action guide and find out how you can continue the fight to defend DACA ✊!

#daca #defend daca #daca dreamers #dacamented #dreamers #dream act #undocumented #undocumented and unafraid #home is here #we are home #here to stay #immigration #immigrant #immigrants #immigrants make america great #immigrants welcome #immigrants are welcome here #immigration reform #immigration law #immigration policy #no human is illegal #citizenship #human rights

[essayly]

Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Pope, Nolan G. “The effects of DACAmentation: The impact of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on unauthorized immigrants.” Journal of Public Economics 143, (2016): 98-114. The article by Pope (2016) examines the effects of DACA on unauthorized migrants on several parameters, such as labor market outcomes, unemployment, income, and legalization of work. It uses a difference-in-differences…

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[fkakidstv]

Colleges must prepare for possible post-DACA world (opinion)

Colleges must prepare for possible post-DACA world (opinion)

Today, in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel of federal judges will hear arguments in a case brought by Texas challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides certain immigrants who were brought to the U.S. without documentation as children protection against deportation and the opportunity to work legally. Hundreds of “DACAmented” and…

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[cumulunimbuss]

#daca #dacamented #undocumented #undocuqueer

[foreverthesoniag]

This!! ✨As the DACA community awaits a Supreme Court decision, @informed_immigrant partnered with #artist and activists impacted by #DACA to launch a new video series called “Note to self during uncertainty”. Our friends will share what this time means for them, how they are coping, and a message to fellow #DACAmented people who may be watching. Today they are featuring Karla Casique @solportals. Karla is a Luchadora, Venezuelan American, undocumented immigrant, creative and a hardcore Taurus. Through this moment of great uncertainty and chaos, of immigration status deadlines & threats, she has taken it as a time of self-reflection, healing, mourning, and transformation. *For additional resources on DACA and immigration-related stress please check out: informedimmigrant.com/mentalhealth and more on the @informed_immigrant page! #HomeIsHere #undocumented #artists #art #migration #migration #migrant #qtpoc #queer #femmesofcolorvisibility #latinx https://www.instagram.com/p/B_yQY3XF-Dv/?igshid=zj31coe96w20

#artist #daca #dacamented #homeishere #undocumented #artists #art #migration #migrant #qtpoc #queer #femmesofcolorvisibility #latinx

[queenmediacollective]

#Repost @marceladaluzle • • • • • • “This moment came at a time when I had been praying for guidance, and for a divine sign to let me know what I should do.” ✨ In this special piece for @queenmediacollective, I wrote about the moment that I knew without a doubt that the universe sends us divine signs & about letting them guide your journey! 🙏🏽 click the link in my bio to read it. • • #queenmediacollective #writers #writerslife #writerscommunity #braziliangirl #spirituality #spiritualjourney #divineguidance #divinetiming #daca #dacadreamers #dacamented #greencardvoices #immigrantwriter #immigrantwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/CC6H0Dzsf3j/?igshid=kpf1xs9q02mq

#repost #queenmediacollective #writers #writerslife #writerscommunity #braziliangirl #spirituality #spiritualjourney #divineguidance #divinetiming #daca #dacadreamers #dacamented #greencardvoices #immigrantwriter #immigrantwriters

[sun--drenched]

Kayla Castellanos is a DREAMER who is using the power of her story to transform our community. Her bravery is cultivating empathy and understanding, where many people are using their platform to tell a single story about the undocumented community.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” says, “The consequence of the single story is that it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult and it emphasizes that we are different rather than how we are similar.”

Kayla is one of many undocumented individuals in our community who have stories to tell. Please join me in listening.

#dreamer #daca #daca recipients #DACAMENTED #ally #be an ally #immigration #interview #activism

[roeum-blog]

No Longer a Secret

Hello! I have something to tell you all--I am a DACAmented student. 

What does this mean? I am an undocumented immigrant who has temporary protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created via executive order under the Obama administration. 

I was brought to the country illegally when I was a year old and have spent the past 17 years of my life trying to navigate through the uncertainty that is living without papers. For 17 years I have been in the dark, trembling in fear whenever I saw a police car and working my hardest in school even when a professional career seemed unreachable to me. 

Applying to colleges has taught me that there is a large support system out there for students like myself. The numerous people who have guided me through the college application process have helped me realize that being DACAmented is not something that I have to hide or be ashamed of. It is not my fault that I was brought to the US illegally, and I am no less American than someone who was born here. The United States is my home. 

I don’t know how long this protection will last but I will use every moment of my time here to learn, better myself, and pursue my dreams. 

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me!

#dacamented #undocumented #daca #deferred action for childhood arrivals #obama #thanksobama #dryeon #school #college #studyblr #studying #college life #studyinspo #studyspo #study motivation #freshman #high school

[salvatorbloodlust]

I Am Not The One That’s Broken

At this point in my life I’ve pretty much accepted the fact that I will never be considered American. Never mind that I know this country’s language, culture, history, and even the God damned National Anthem. All people will ever see is that for the first 7 years of my life, I lived somewhere else.

&&No pity please- I’ve come to terms with it already. Everybody’s life is unfair, this is simply my share.

I do, however, refuse to be ashamed about it.

I remember as a kid being SO embarrassed whenever the topic of legal status came up. I would feel my face get all hot, my palms start to sweat, and I’d stutter if I tried to talk. I knew that being “illegal” was bad, so I always felt like I’d done something wrong by simply being here.

FUCK THAT.

I literally didn’t do SHIT. I was seven years old. All I understood was that we were moving away. I didn’t even fucking know why.

But you know what I did understand?

That I would have to start attending a new school. (A school that held me back a grade and made me take speech classes so that I would “learn English properly without an accent”) A school where I had no friends for a while because I couldn’t communicate with anybody.

I understood that we had to give my dog away because she couldn’t come with us.

I understood that my cousin, who lived down the street from me and became like a sister to me would not be coming with. I understood that I would miss her.

I understood that everyone in my family was sad. I understood that when we left, everyone crying and hugging and kissing and saying goodbye a million times more than necessary was because they didn’t want to let us go. I understood that the way my aunt and mom were crying in the car on the way to airport meant that we would be gone for longer than they’d told me.

As I grew, I began to understand a lot more.

I began to understand that I would never be able to legally drive. I understood that although good grades would always be important to me, they’d also be useless because scholarships and financial aid were for U.S. Citizens and I didn’t qualify. I understood that I could not always trust the police because my very existence was breaking the law. After what happened in Arizona, I understood that I should fear the police because the law would never be on my side.

I began to understand why bad people become bad. If that’s all that’s expected of you, &&that’s the way people treat you anyway, why not? But I refused to cave.

Despite the fear and shame, I worked hard even though I was underpaid. Even though I didn’t see a point, I did it for my mom. I wouldn’t let her sacrifice be for nothing.

When Obama passed DACA, I couldn’t believe it at first. It seemed too good to be true. It was the first time that I felt like talking about my legal status didn’t have to be talked about in shame. I no longer had to feel as though “undocumented” was a dirty word. My life improved in so many ways. I started school, got 2 jobs, moved out, and bought a car. For the first time in my adult life I began to make plans for my future. For the first time in my life I had options.

I know that my life will be more complicated when my work permit expires now that Trump is ending the DACA program. That’s okay. I lived my entire life without DACA, I can do it again.

Here’s the only difference:

I will not be ashamed anymore.

I used to be embarrassed that I couldn’t drive. I used to be embarrassed that I didn’t go to college. I used to be embarrassed that I had a shitty job. That I couldn’t travel by plane even within the country. That I couldn’t afford to live on my own. That I couldn’t afford nice brand name things or cool phones.

I used to feel so guilty about living here. When I graduated I wanted to move back to Mexico so bad because I felt like it was so wrong to stay here. I even got to the point that I felt like all those limitations were my deserved punishment for breaking the law by moving here when I was 7.

BUT NOT ANYMORE.

You know why? Because I proved to myself that when given the opportunity, I can do all those things. Everything I thought I would never be able to do, I did. I used to think that there was something wrong with me, but I’ve learned that there is nothing wrong with me. I’m not the one who is broken; the system is.

&&I’m no longer ashamed of my status because I no longer equate it with inferiority; instead it makes me proud. Because despite all the odds against me, I still succeeded in everything I set my mind to. &&That’s something to be proud of.

So when DACA ends and my limitations return, I will not talk about them with shame. Because I am not the one who should be ashamed. The government is.

#daca #undocumented and unafraid #legal status #no human being is illegal #politics #let's get our shit together #i will love myself #immigrants #immigration #illegal aliens #no ban no wall #build that wall #thanks obama #cheeto president #unashamed #dacamented #dreamers #mexican american #chicana #be woke

[jarrydwillis]

As we celebrate #Juneteenth today, I would like to share some of my reflections from June 18th - the day in which we won a significant #SCOTUS victory on #DACA. No, I’m not a #DREAMer & will never know the experience of undocumented Americans and their families. In addition, the ethnoracial identity of the #DACAmented community is primarily Hispanic & secondarily East Asian. As the discussion of #RacialTrauma over the past month has made clear, different ethnoracial groups experience different forms of systematic racism & systemic bias. Though some overlaps & similarities exist, I can never truly know what it means to be Hispanic or Asian in America. It is within our differences, our diversity, that I find few things feel as American as standing in #Allyship with others. My work with North Texas Dream Team & eventually the DREAMer organization I created at UT-Arlington, DREAM Factory, reflects one of the things I enjoy most as a professor: having the opportunity to make a tangible difference in the lives of others. Without question, assisting in the completion of deferred action applications for undocumented Americans in DFW - some of whom were students in my Social Psychology courses - was one of the most patriotic experiences of my life. Acting on behalf of DREAMers, defending Asians who have experienced increased racism during the pandemic, celebrating the acquisition of protections against workplace discrimination for the LGBT community, & joining the conversation on race with #BlackLivesMatter helps us narrow the gap between who we currently are & the America that we aspire to be. We work with, befriend, live with, & share ourselves with others don’t come from the same place, have the same stories, the same religion, the same racial background, the same first language, or love in the same way as us because we are Americans. The USA, the world’s global nation, becomes a more perfect union each time its ideals demonstrate its inclusive adaptability to an ever-changing world. Our 'American ethnicity' is defined by our discursive capacity for cultural pluralism. As such, xenophobia, Islamophobia, & racism are anti-American. We are, out of many, one🇺🇸💜 (at Up2you Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBo_4Ydgj-p/?igshid=knie7pxvxtxv

#juneteenth #scotus #daca #dreamer #dacamented #racialtrauma #allyship #blacklivesmatter

[glitchphotography]

{ DACA is on the line :( 

#glitch art #gifs #daca #defenddaca #dreamers #dream act #withdaca #databending #video art #net art #gif art #immigration reform #immigrant rights #not one more #united we dream #dacamented #heretostay

[thenapturalone]

The whole “Lets do this grimy shit and blame it on the Dacamented guy” is prompting me to believe that the writers gotta throw the whole How to Get Away With Murder  episode away and start over.

#htgawm #how to get away with murder #daca #dacamented #what the fuck Shonda

[amessofaheart]

Dreamers, you aren't alone. We are in this together. I am here for anyone who needs someone to talk to who understands. We knew this was bound to happen. Now is the time to fight and I know most of us are tired but remember that we owe that to ourselves and to our parents. They can try to bury us but remember we are seeds. With or without, DACA we are worth so much.

#daca #deferred action for childhood arrivals #dacamented #heretostay #we need each other #now more than ever

[femininefreak]

Tell Your Members of Congress to Defend the DACAmented

Over the past five years, DACA has provided 800,000 immigrant youth protection from deportation, the opportunity for higher education and jobs, and more stability to our communities. See how many DACAmented youth are in your community then demand that your members of Congress stand up to Trump and secure the futures of DACA recipients with a legislative fix.

Find a script for your state from Indivisible here.

#DACA #members of congress #DACAmented #dream act #do your job #trump administration #cruelty #activism #persist #resist #legislation

[lilrobbie79-blog]

For all the Bible thumping trump supporters out there!

"The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God."

Bible Leviticus 19:34

#daca #dreamers #dacamented #chicanx #chicano #undocumented #documented

[chicagoreporter]

Thousands gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Chicago Tuesday evening to hear stories from DACA recipients and other immigrants after a rally and march from Federal Plaza. Demonstrators were urging "Protection for all" undocumented immigrants in light of the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, announced on Sept. 5, 2017. (Photos by Max Herman)

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#daca #defenddaca #defenddreamers #community #photo #save daca #Dreamers #here to stay #protection for all #protectionforall #undocumented #dacamented #resistance #resist trump #sanctuary cities #dream act #immigrant rights #On Assignment #notmypresident #not my president #photojournalism #sindacasinmiedo #immigrantswelcome #immigrants welcome #no hate no fear #nohatenofear #undocumented and unafraid