to submit for renewals and starting tomorrow you have young people who are going to start losing their protection of status and protection from deportation. and as of tomorrow, thousands of young people like my brother jonathan who has daca and is 23 years old are in danger of deportation because of this administration. well, the rally raises attention. but what is your group doing today to help those people? well, i think that today speaks to the urgency of why we need congress to pass a clean d.r.e.a.m. act today. we need legislation that will protect young people from deportation and put us and our families in the pathway to citizenship. and that s what we need. and that s why we stood today with progressive leaders from many organizations including senator harris, including senator warren, congressman gutierrez. one thing i keep thinking about, are you concerned that some immigrants are going to be afraid to renew their documents? the one thing daca did, it got
this was probably coming mid morning today. how did you hear about it and how do you feel? rachel since the day of the election, donald trump ran a campaign committing to end the daca program. and the anxiety and fear in our community has been rising. today is a difficult day for us. my brother jonathan is one of the close to one million people that have benefited from the daca program that has allowed him to live without the fear to be deported, to go back to school, to help my family out financially because he s been able to work. and like him, thousands of young people have received the difficult news today. we are outraged at this decision, rachel. and i want to be clear about something. sessions mentioned in his speech today that this was dual about
some people are so surprised we re having strong borders. that s what i ve been talking about for a year and a half, strong border. they re so surprised. that s what i ve been talking about to the press and everybody else. cities across the country today stores were shuttered, protested mounted in a day without immigrants coordinated action. joining me christina jiminez, co-founder of united we dream. christina i wonder if you can talk about what kind of ripple effect these stories anecdotally about these i.c.e. detentions are having amongst folks documented and undocumented. thanks, chris, for having me this is clear terror in our communities. there were raids in brooklyn, new york, the borough right next to mine. i grew up undocumented. my parents are undocumented. my brother jonathan is a daca recipient. that means that i fear my family could be next like guadalupe, a mother who has been here over 20 years with children that were born here who was deported.
christina i wonder if you can talk about what kind of ripple effect these stories anecdotally about these i.c.e. detentions are having amongst folks documented and undocumented. thanks, chris, for having me this is clear terror in our communities. there were raids in brooklyn, new york, the borough right next to mine. i grew up undocumented. my parents are undocumented. my brother jonathan is a daca recipient. that means that i fear my family could be next like guadalupe, a mother who has been here over 20 years with children that were born here who was deported. jeanette who had to seek refuge in a church and you have daca recipients that even though the program is still current are also getting detained so this is unfortunately the impact that the executive orders that trump signed in the first week as president that is basically