Next, lawmakers and civil rights advocates look at the importance of the deferred action for Childhood Arrivals Program examining Supreme Court case and whether the president s decision to end the program is constitutional. This is hosted by the center for American Progress. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Good morning. Hello, everyone. I am the director of the center for American Progress. We are pleased you could join us this morning and welcome to a daca interface and prayer breakfast. I hope you will have a chance to get breakfast. We are at capacity. Please grab a chair beside the wall. First, to open up our program i want to welcome the fearless and strong and brave champion who has been carrying the congressional caucus and representing texas and has been a steadfast champion of immigrants whether they be dreamers, asylumseekers, you can find today he will be joining Daca Recipients in the court as well. I want everyone to give a round of applause to joaquin castro. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. I want to thank you for being here on a momentous occasion as we stand in support of Daca Recipients across the nation. I am proud chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and represent the great city of san antonio, texas, to the United States congress. I want to thank and recognize all the Daca Recipients, the dreamers. [applause] the plaintiff and attorneys that are here today working so hard in arguing that, thank you for your work. [applause] and of course we take our flight to the Supreme Court and we believe and hope the Supreme Court will recognize Daca Recipients and dreamers are just as american as anyone else. I would like to acknowledge the ambassador, martha, former director leon rodriguez and dream. Us founder don graham with us this morning. [applause] you know this but i will mention it anyway because there are some folks who dont always recognize it. Dreamers are valuable contribute in members of our communities and valuable contributors to the United States economy. They are neighbors, friends and colleagues. They strengthen our community and our country and it is inexcusable that donald trump is forcing dreamers into legal limbo by trying to cancel the daca program. Knowing the Supreme Court will shortly hear this case is only cemented in my mind how cool the administration act, pushing deportation over keeping dreamers in the United States. For the last two years the Trump Administration has attacked dreamers by trying to rollback immigration protections and putting them at risk of deportation, by rescinding daca the Trump Administration has manufactured a crisis that has hurt dreamers and american families. Today our country is taking another important step to reject the Trump Administrations cruel tactics. While we must wait until next year to hear the final decision from the Supreme Court, today is an important beginning. Today the brave Daca Recipients, their attorneys, elected officials and advocates across the country stand up in their defense. Our nations dreamers, including 300,000 in my home state of texas, and 8000 in my own congressional district, deserve real protections under the law. This reminds us all to recommit every day and in every way that we possibly can. In congress we will fight by continuing to push the senate to vote on the house past dream and promise act. We are a country with a strong immigrant heritage, and the diversity strengthens our national fabric. This is a personal one. As i had a grandparent, my grandmother was a young girl, my grandmother came to the United States because both her parents had died around the time of the mexican revolution and she and her younger sister, the closest relatives that could take them in were not in mexico but san antonio, texas. I often think when i think about the legal limbo dreamers are in today, i think about my grandmothers story when she came to the United States the documents that allowed her in, there was a line on the document that read something to the effect of purpose of visit and scribbled into that line were the words to live. She was coming here to live. Our dreamers have been with us for many years. Today i hope the Supreme Court will recognize that. May god bless you today and every day, advocates and attorneys and everybody else, elected officials who have been pushing for so long on their behalf, thank you and god bless you. [applause] i know he was just going to sit down. The quickest seat to the podium you will ever find. I want to introduce somebody who has been a grand champion. Dreamers of Daca Recipients for a few decades now, senator dick durbin of illinois. [applause] it is a treat to be here today. I started the morning walking in front of the Supreme Court. All the young people and other sitting, standing in the ring, hoping they are going to get inside the Supreme Court argument at 10 00. I will be there, listening to the report. Where are you . I want to give special credit, joe saki, my attorney has absolutely been the leader on this. This administration has been so harsh, hardedged and even cruel and no more so than when it comes to the treatment of children. And infant toddlers and children taken away from their parents at the border. The reunification of those families require federal court to step down and the president s decision on september 5, 2017, to eliminate daca. When i think about what it meant, i reflect on the fact that president obama told me in his transition meeting with donald trump in the white house and the december before that, he spent an extra hour talking about daca, hoping to convince him it would be the worst thing he could do. For the Justice Administration and even the politics of the situation but clearly didnt succeed. Gathering of jeff sessions, steve miller, john kelly and Kirsten Nielsen and who else i dont know. If not for the courts intervention stepping in and giving those who were protected a chance to renew their status, would have been a tragedy that multiplied many times over. I dont need to tell you who the daca people are. Many are seated in the audience but i have never been associated with a better group of people in my life. They are solid, sincere, brave, determines. Their entire lifes story is a story of battling against the odds from the time they were told as children they were not the same as neighbors and friends at school. They are never given up. I cried with them and laughed with them and gone through many experiences together. Ive got my fingers crossed this morning that they will be that fifth Supreme Court justice that will make the difference. I sincerely believe we have a chance to win in the Supreme Court but whatever happens, the Court Decision come the spring, this battle will not be finished until every one of these dreamers becomes part of americas future, to be part of the only country they have ever known. That has been my goal for 19 years since introducing the dream act. I said to them through many defeats and few along the way, dont give up on us because we will never give up on you. [applause] greetings, peace to you all. I am the director of the Faith Initiative at the center for American Progress. This is a weighty day as thousands of our neighbors, friends and family members fight for their lawful right to stay with families and communities. Im grateful we are joined by so many friends and allies, we have representative garcia here as well, and faith leaders and civil rights leaders. As we call on the Supreme Court to uphold the rights of Daca Recipients those of us who are faithful of faith also lift up our prayers. I would like to ask of faith leaders can join me in front of the room. I invite any members of congress who wish to join us to do so as well. To lead us in prayer is an associate pastor at Bering Memorial United Methodist Church in houston, texas. Representative nunez is a daca recipient, she was born in mexico and came to the us at the age of 9. What it means for herself and the community she serves, welcome. Good morning, everybody. No pressure. As we begin this gathering we talk about the occupation of land. I would like to acknowledge the traditional, ancestral territory over indigenous which we are learning and organizing today. May we continue to recognize those homes we are standing on and bring honor as we work towards justice and call upon my ancestors who guide me and strengthen me as i navigate white spaces. Never in my life that i think i would be a pastor. However, today, i can stand before you and confirm that this is where god wants me. It is my very experience as a marginalized dehumanize documented woman that god continues to remind me of my worth as gods creation and the power i hold as such. I am called to speak truth to power and attend to those wounded by the unfair immigration policies that constantly hurt children, babies, grandparents, tearing family apart. I am called to speak up even when my heart is racing and my palms are sweaty because peoples lives depend on it. My daughters life depends on it. As a documented pastor i often get asked when will god step in and bring relief to those suffering under an unfair and broken immigration system . My response is always when you get up and march forward. It is you who bring scott into places where change happens. It is in our organizing that god picks up and moves at to march forward with us. God is there president. Got here, present. Lets not forget we are not doing this work alone and when we feel tired, weary and weak, we come forward, to reach hard and continue pushing forward. Would you join in prayer with me . Transcending spirit, we come today tired, burdened and hopeful. We come together as resilient and strengthened community. Where here to claim our worth as children of god, as creation of your very image and as sources of your own energy. We come together today to stand for the justice you are yearning for. We come together to keep accountable those who have spoken empty promises, to turn away and forget. We thank you, oh great one, we know you walk beside us as we march, you hurt deeply when we hurt and you continue to manifest when we feel alone. May we continue to fight the good fight, draw strength from your ever flowing lifegiving energy as we continue to answer the call to justice and peace. Give us wisdom as we move forward, bring clarity to our mind, be present. So be it. Amen. Thank you. Now i will have a few words if you want to remain standing, the washington director of jewish action, offer a short reflection on what this may mean. Good morning, everyone. This momentous morning is a day or a moment of uncertainty. Of hope but also anxiety. Of anticipation, lets take a couple moments to tap into our gratitude. Our gratitude for our health, for the food that we eat this morning, for those who made it possible for that to come onto our plates and our bellies. In particular, lets offer gratitude for the documented folks, families who have stepped in fear, risk, uncertainty and put themselves on the line in leading this fight. And those who are inside or outside the court today. For the organizers. We are grateful for your leadership because you understand you are not just leading a fight about daca. You are leading a fight for how this country views immigrants and leading a fight for how this country views itself. You are leading a movement for what kind of society and what kind of world we will live in and our grandchildren and greatgrandchildren are living. Some want to build a society when theres only one way to live, only one way to love, only one way to pray and one way to think. We know there are some working to build a society where only white lives matter. Today is an important moment in a movement that has a different vision. That vision says home is here. And and they are in doubt by their creator. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and securities rights, governments are instituted driving there just powers from the consent of the governed. Today is about seeking justice and while we pray for victory we know to truly prevail we must be in this fight for the long haul and have each others backs and we do. [applause] what a blessing it is to be here today. These faith leaders with me today represent several distant faith traditions and denominations. They work to elevate voices of their faith communities in support of Daca Recipients and are here again today in the steadfast solidarity. They represent communities across the country that are praying today for their fellow congregants, classmates, coworkers, family members and themselves. As we stand together in this room, our catholic brothers and sisters are on a rosary walk outside the Supreme Court. All of us join our communities in praying that our Supreme Court justices will listen closely to the arguments shared today and choose the only possible just and moral outcome to keep our communities together, thank you. [applause] good morning, everyone. Good morning. So grateful for the prayer we just all shared together. My name is christina jimenez. Im executive director and one of the cofounders of united trained and im grateful to members of congress who have come together to bring us into this space tomorrow moments like today, we must take note that together we are making history. We are making history today. We can say that our community has been put through unspeakable hardship, deportation, ice and cdp agents going after our communities, the future of daca, the future of tps, all uncertain. And many many more attacks our communities are facing across the country. I am reminded today of the words of a woman, valerie cork, who offered perhaps, the pain we face are not the face of death. But the pain of childbirth. That there is something new being born today. Do you believe that . Do you believe that . Is something new is being born today. As we pray together, let our prayers not just be the justices do the right thing, but let us also say in our prayers and energies to all the immigrants that despite the attacks, going after us, despite the uncertainty of daca, and despite the cold and rain are showing up today. All the immigrants and allies who right now, are waiting to be inside the Supreme Court, or will be rallying outside the Supreme Court. Let us pray for them. Despite the challenges and fear, they are showing up. We are showing up. Let us turn our prayers within so that similarly just like courageous immigrants that are taking action today that we need the moment as well. Lets pray that we find our moral clarity inside of us. And ask ourselves, what are we, each of us, doing, to be part of giving birth to something new. What are we doing, to give birth to something new. In congress, in the halls of our local elected legislatures, in our communities, in the courts, to make sure any role that we hold in our communities, in any institution that we are part of in our society, that we are insuring immigrants and old people can live without fear to thrive, to be free. So lets pray that we find the moral clarity today and lets pray justices find that clarity as we go through this process. [applause] good morning, everyone. I am the director of the center for American Progress. We will now introduce someone who has been a longtime champion of the immigrants rights community, she has led legislation to protect dreamers and tps, she is one of the coauthors of hr 6, the American Dream and promise act, shes also the chairwoman of the Small Business community and it is my honor to bring up congresswoman barack us. [applause] thank you so much and good morning. Thank you for having me, thank you all for being here on this historic occasion. In fact, lets pray that they find the moral clarity to define who we are and to protect who we are. Today, we are at a crucial crossroads of our nation and history. Today they will define what is american. America is an idea. What makes America America are immigrants. Lets not forget that. Today we speak with one collective voice in saying dreamers are here to say. For so many young people with daca status the United States is the only home they have ever known. They are american in every single way except on paper. Some of them can hear when they were so young they do not remember a journey. Many of them speak only english. Their parents brought them here for so many Different Reasons but they all came in pursuit of that uniquely american promise. The idea that if you work hard and play by the rules you can succeed as an american. Now with the president has hateful effort to rollback daca, we face a moment of truth. As a nation we need to decide how we will define ourselves. Are we a nation that embraces these remarkable young people, a nation that is founded on inclusiveness and diverse city or are we going to pander to the present Political Base with policies steeped in hate and fear. I for one am not going to let the president rob our nation of its immigrant heritage. We are not going to let him sacrifice these young dreamers on the altar of political cynicism. The courts are going to hear the argument today. We are all praying at this event and throughout the day for the court to see the wisdom of embracing these young people. We are praying for kindness and we are praying for compassion but we are also praying for strength, to carry on that fight. Many of you know that i am one of the authors of the American Dream, legislation that will protect these young people and provide them a path to citizenship. Regardless of what happens in the courts we must press this bill. This measure will also provide safe havens for our brothers and sisters through the tps program. These are immigrants fleeing civil wars, natural disasters, and other hardships. They are mothers with young children, mothers with young children. Donald trump will deport them. The bible tells us you should also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of egypt. Let us remind us first is anyone, justice for the foreigner, today, my friends, we gather in the temple of democracy, our nation stands at a fork in the road, will we embrace our heritage of a nation of immigrants . Will we live up to the values of christ, will we show charity and love, or will we succumb to hatred and fear . I believe in my heart that our nation will choose the path that protect our immigrant brothers and sisters, and honors their contribution but i look out on all of you and see that you are here today. Lets go forward united, arms locked together, standing tall with love in our hearts and ready to fight for one another. Thank you and god bless. [applause] thank you, senator velasquez, for those remarks. We now move to the civil rights portion of our prayer breakfast. I would like to recognize janet, president and ceo. [applause] good morning, everyone. I so appreciate the inspiration we received from face of the british faith leaders today and also from so many of our champions in congress. That is a momentous day for the latino community, not only is the future of daca at stake but so is the future of millions of children and young people in this country. Today is about the law but it is also about people, young people like fellow giovanni, he came here, he finished high school in three years, no money for college. And and and for students just like him. We heard today there were 800,000 such a dreamers in this country but do we really fundamentally understand also that they are parents of 255,000 children who are overwhelmingly us citizens born in this country and it highlights one aspect of the report that was released earlier this year which found that there are at least 6 million citizen children at risk of losing a parent to deportation. We are keeping hardworking dreamers, americans in all but name in limbo. We are putting their children through trauma and fear of losing a mom or dad. Our nation is perpetually sacrificing the contribution of the full potential of people like giovanni for what . There is no objective reason or justification for ending the daca program. Every lower court has confirmed that for whatever measure we take or standard you use, daca has been amazingly successful. More than 90 of dreamers work and nearly half are in school. It is also extremely popular with strong bipartisan support and support from every sector of society including business, the military and first responders. It is our hope today that the Supreme Court will see what we see that ending daca was cruel, senseless and capricious act of a cool, senseless and capricious president who continues to refuse to put our countrys interests above his own. Today, lets send a message to the Supreme Court collectively. Lets do our part and lets reaffirm that we are all dreamers and we deserve justice. Thank you. [applause] thank you for joining us. We heard this morning about the civil rights impaired, the broad faith support there is for dreamers and as we look at the court today we know this will be on full display, the Broad Community on full display, even as simple as support of dreamers and we have been reminded of the moral clarity of the day and i hope we will carry that with us throughout the day. As we move on to our next panel we will take a quick break and in the meantime i would like to ask our civil rights panels, distinctive speakers to join us and take a seat. [inaudible conversations] thank you all. We will now continue our program. Good morning, everyone. I am president of the center for American Progress and im grateful for all of you attending this event, joining us this morning. I want to acknowledge the incredible Public Officials and faith leaders, and recipients of daca who made it here this morning, and be part of its event. We understand that for 825,000 people who received daca protection in the course of the program the United States is their home. We know Daca Recipients pay nearly 9 billion in taxes each year, and employ more than 85,000 people across the country. More importantly we understand this is more than an issue of economics, it is a moral issue. Stop values such as compassion and the basic sense of decency. Daca recipients, 250,000 children. We are witnessing agonizing images of children trying after being ripped from their parents for the inhumane policy of family separation and we cannot allow 250,000 children to experience that same kind of anguish if daca is undone. That is what the stakes are. That is why we will fight with every ounce of energy on behalf of Daca Recipients, where we are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder in this fight with other progressive groups including the inspiring leaders sitting here with me. And now i would like to introduce our panel or our speakers, first the president and ceo of the Leadership Conference on human rights. And the administrations attacks against daca as part of a broader assault on our civil rights and then introduce lisa barrett from the Legal Defense fund who will discuss motivation this, the attempt to turn a mate daca and you already heard a great leader in the progressive movement. Thank you for your leadership and pulling this together at such a crucial moment. Im the president and ceo of the Leadership Conference of civil and human rights, a coalition of 220 of the nations of went and human rights organizations working toward an american and ideals. Im grateful to be here this morning among so many champions for justice. Members of congress with so many dreamers and activists who have been fighting to save the soul of our country these many months of insecurity. In my own life as the daughter of indian immigrants and as the wife of a vietnamese refugee and as a longtime civil rights lawyer, i have seen the profound power of laws to advance americas promise of equal protection and equal justice for all. I had seen also how our nations highest officers weapon eyes the law to spread fear and silence communities and try to tear families apart. Such abuses of power are exactly why we are here this morning. Today the Supreme Court is going to raise argument on the validity of the president s decision to end daca, the program that allows hundreds of thousands of young immigrants to call the country home without fear for their safety or their futures. Not so long ago i was part of the Justice Department but found the program not only to be legal but part of the very core fabric of what makes the country so open, equal opportunity at its best and part of the promise of the American Dream. To this president people have become political ponds and their safety is a bargaining chip. This is part of the administrations a broader strategy to rollback our civil rights and push policies that harm immigrants and communities of color. We know that every person in america deserves better. Dreamers deserve better. Year after year dreamers have shown up the power of young people leading a movement for justice and they have shown us what it means to sacrifice and fight for this country. The only home that many have ever known. Our nations leaders should look to their example and marshall the same courage, hope and integrity dreamers and Daca Recipients show every single day. As the court prepares to hear the daca case the Leadership Conference calls for moral leadership in all branches of government. Those positions of power must strongly, publicly and consistently condemn scapegoating and racism. Our communities must double down on our power and affirm our shared vision of america as it should be, just inclusive and fair. That is the america we all deserve and that is the america we are going to defendant a we have nothing left in us. This is a defining moment for our country. It really is about who we are as a country and about saving the soul of our country and our communities. This is an issue of fundamental decency. Now matter how the court ruled Leadership Conference and our coalition are going to continue to do what this movement has always been in the face of hate and fear. We are going to organize. We are going to mobilize. We are going to litigate and we are going to rally, in the courts, in the streets, until we win. Now community will fight these fights alone. The Leadership Conference remains united with all immigrants and our allies, the fight to protect civil and human rights for all. It is a fight we are going to win and it is why we are here today, thank you. [applause] thank you. The center for American Progress, hosting these important conversations today, thank you for your continued partnership. The case before the Supreme Court today is critically important not only for Daca Recipients but also for the democracy of our country. I am lisa kyler barrett, policy at the naacp Legal Defense and educational fund. Im here on behalf of cheryl, our president and director counsel who was unable to be here today. The Legal Defense fund is a nonprofit nonpartisan Law Organization established to assist black people and other people of color in the full, fair and free exercise of their constitutional rights. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall it focuses on eliminating Racial Discrimination in education, criminal justice, civics participation and economic justice. For nearly 80 years old df has fought to support the constitutional guarantee of equal protection for all persons consistent with the amicus opposition to all forms of discrimination, it has a strong interest in ensuring that the federal government advise by fundamental equal protection principles in its policies related to immigrants. The administrations decision to rescind the daca program is being challenged on grounds it violated the administrative procedures act, given the unexplained aboutface which we see as being arbitrary and capricious. We also see alternative ground for p keeping daca and the decision was motivated at least in part by discrimination against immigrants of color and in particular people of mexican heritage who are the overwhelming majority of Daca Recipients. Lef and Latino Justice filed an amicus brief on Racial Discrimination, and we feel Racial Discrimination was a motivation for the decision. First, the fact that it was disproportionately set for latinos and individuals of mexican heritage. Latinos account for 93 Daca Recipients. Equally concerning are the president s statements and tweets demonstrating his animus for latinos and people of mexican ancestry. We have all heard them but the president called them criminals and rapists and drug dealers. The president the right of people who protested at one of his rallies as thugs who were flying the mexican flag. The president stated a federal judge of mexican descent could not fairly preside over a lawsuit in which he was a party because he was a mexican despite the fact that the judge is american. President the president has repeatedly labeled latino immigrants as latinos as bad hombres. And the administration has implemented, widely condemned family separation policies that resulted in thousands of children of tender ages, many of them babies and toddlers being forcefully removed from their parents and held in Detention Centers where conditions have been described by official observers, some of the congressional members that were here with us today as an sanitary and dangerously overcrowded. And that is just a few of the examples. Beyond those examples, the president stated preference for white immigrants over immigrants of color. In august 2016, then candidate trump expressed the desire to return to the 1924 quota system to maintain historical norms. The 1924 system was, in the words of its proponent, senator reid of pennsylvania, a scientific plan for keeping America American. By sharply limiting nonwhite immigration. The president , upon learning 15,000 haitians and 40,000 nigerians received visas to enter the United States reportedly exclaimed haitians all have aids and on seeing the United States, nigerians would never return to their huts in africa. At the same meeting, donald trump expressed his preference for more immigrants from places like norway. These statements are only a portion of the president s statements expressing animus toward immigrants of color and his administration has implemented a variety of policies reflecting that animus. As stated earlier, the critical importance of this case to Daca Recipients cannot be understated but it is also critical to democracy and what this country means. The administration is asserting that its decision to rescind a program that protects the removal of nearly 700,000 persons brought to the us as children is not subject to judicial scrutiny. Even if that is motivated by racial animus. I just want to pause because that is a breathtaking argument that our government would argue that courts could not review a decision even if it is motivated by racial animus. The administration formally stated the decision was motivated by a desire to remove had formally stated im sorry. That would mean article 3 courts could not review the administrations decision even if it stated that the decision was based on a desire to remove as many latinos as possible from the country. That simply is not the law and it cannot be the law of this country. Lds continues to stand with our partners in opposition to this administration and its policies. We will continue to use our full force of litigation, our policy and advocacy and all the tools at our disposal to stand with our brothers and sisters in this effort and we look forward to hearing and seeing the results from the court today and hoping they will recognize the importance of this case and uphold our democracy. Thank you. [applause] i know you spoke but i want to ask if you have any final thoughts and i have one question about the president s position for the panel. I just want to say it is important for us to establish as civil rights leaders that there is a civil rights frame to this, something we should be prioritizing. We know theres human rights, immigrant rights but from a civil rights, which is the foundation of so much of what we consider the quality, the basis of our democracy, we can make this case and we are making this case. For us, we saw the separation of families occurring on the border and we were outraged, as we should have been. By this action, dreamers, who are the parents of 255,000 children, would be removed from their children. That universal rejection of separation of families applied on the border most certainly applies when we apply it, when we look at the lives of these dreamers as parents rooted in communities, making contributions every day and displaying the best, the very best of American Values. We need to uphold our American Values as we look at this case today and that is what we are asking the Supreme Court to do. Thank you. I was going to ask about the president this morning but we should spend less time focusing on him. We have senator hirono here and we welcome her to the stage. [applause] thank you. You can hear me, cant you. I like to be closer to you all. Thank you very much. How many of you came to new york in march . I will be introducing you but hundreds 16 days. [applause] home is here. Home is here. For all immigrants and i am an immigrant myself. Some of you may know that. Home is here. Over the course of public service, there are three life lessons that are applicable in all kinds of situations including this one and the first is that one person can make a difference. In my case my mother changed my life by bringing me to this country but in the case of all of you, the daca participants and all the supporters coming together as you did in the months that you hoped congress could do the right thing and pass the law that would protect Daca Recipients, one person can make a difference but when we Work Together is much more powerful. The second life lesson is half the battle is showing up. You are here and it is not just to show up physically but to continue to show up, the battles we think we have one whether it is on womens rights, gay rights, lgbt queue, environment, or anything, the battles we think we have won dont stay won. We have to keep showing up and you all showed up day after day after day, hundreds and hundreds of you at the capital and that we would enact the law that is the president said, come to me with a bipartisan bill, i will sign it which is another broken promise by the way. This presidency is littered with lies and broken promises but half the battle is showing up. We need to keep showing up until we provide the protection for the daca participants and do the right thing with comprehensive immigration reform. The third, leaving our comfort zone. For a lot of us, protesting, marching, that is not something we normally do but these are times that call for us to do things we believe in, not just to march. That is important, to show solidarity, but to do those things such as voter registration, get people out to vote so that we can have people here who are truly committed to human rights, climate change, believe in climate changes that is a religion, it is not a science and all the things that remain to be done and theres a lot. This is a very divided country, these are not normal times and all of us have to do that which i think is more than we usually do so i want to thank you for your commitment. Yesterday is a really important day because the case is before the Supreme Court. It is one of many cases the Supreme Court is going to decide, womens rights on healthcare, all the things that people in our country care about could be decided very negatively by the Supreme Court. I tried to get into the hearing, but you must be very crowded. Lots of interest. I will keep on fighting and stay the course because i know who i am fighting for just as you do and why . I want to introduce three people here who were on the march. I want to introduce them. [applause] seth larson. Chris larson and marcy florez. Marcy. Okay. I hope everything is okay. Are you going to come up and share the experience . Participants, yea. This was an incredible march that i want to acknowledge two other people in our audience that made a huge impact on the march. Please stand up. And one of the most individuals that touched my heart was the mothers but marched because the mothers were fighting for their children as they brought their children here for a better life, they are still fighting for that. Please stand up. [cheers and applause] really appreciate it. One of the things we keep in mind is this country has fought since its early ages for separation from england and who were the people who thought . They were immigrants. If we look at all of us we are all immigrants. Hello. Im a daca recipient. I really want to shout to all the marchers, yes. We