Survive Hurricane Harvey. We feel o overwhelmed. Not only y d we go through a physical storm called harvey, but through another storm which. S the rescinding of daca we condemn the president for making the announcement atat suh a badd time. Ke i said, we e are not strangers to fighting. We will continue to fight for ourselves and our community. Amy then n to our own Juan Gonzalez on his new book reclaiming gotham bill de blasio and the movement to end americas tale of two cicities. Juan four years ago, the deblasiof bill represents the comingofage of a new Political Movement. In my book reclaiming gotham, i examine what the movement has accomplished and where it goes from here. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome toto demococracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a major attack on immigrant communities across the United States, attorney generalal Jeff Sessionsns has announced the trp administration is rescinding daca thats deferred action for childhood arrivals, which gives nearly 800,000 young immigrants permission to live and work in the United States. The department of justice has advised the president and the department of Homeland Security that the department of Homeland Security should begin an orderly, lawful wind down, including the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program. Amy president obama implemented daca in 2012 after nearly a decade of massive grassroots organizing and direct action protests by undocumented youth across the country. President obama called trumps decision to rescind daca cruel. The administration now says it will begin phasing out the protections in six months, meaning that some Daca Recipients will be eligible for deportation as early as march 2018. Between now and then, congress has the opportunity to pass legislation that could protect Daca Recipients, as well as millions of other immigrants currently in the country without legal authorization. Sessions announcement Tuesday Morning sparked immediate protests across the country, with crowds taking to the streets in minneapolis, chicago, los angeles, atlanta, washington d c, new york, and houston where thousands of Daca Recipients and their families are currently helping the city rebuild after devastating Hurricane Harvey. In new york city, 34 people were arrested at a sitin led by undocumented activists outside trump tower. My name is catalina. Millionighting for 11 undocumented immigrants in this country. Is an attackdaca on the entire undocumented community. This fight goes beyond daca. It is for all of the workers in this country, those who work in the fields, and the restaurants, who work cleaning our homes, who have crossed borders. This is a fight for all of us because we all deserve respect. This fight is beyond daca. For allfive undocumented immigrants inin ths country y who provovide the lab. Ththis countryuns onon us. Without t , this countryry falls apar amy y high s school ststudentsn denver also staged a massive walkout in protest of umps decisision to rescind daca. The head of the u. S. Hispanic chamber of commerce, javier palomarez, resigned from Trumps NationalDiversity Coalition in protest, calling the decision to revoke daca inhumane and economically harmful. In georgia, the Atlanta City Council immediately passed a resolution to support Daca Recipients and to move to limit collaboration between local Atlanta Police and federal immigration agents. Both new york and california threatened to sue the Trump Administration to protect the states dreamers. After headlines, well go to houston to speak with Cesar Espinosa. Caribbean island nations and the state of florida are making emergency prepararations and evacuations as thehe potentially catastrophic categoryfive Hurricane Irma barrels across the atlantic ocean. Early this morning, the hurricane made landfall on the island nation of barbuda, and then the islands st. Martin andd st. Barthelelemy. The storm is one of the most powerful atlantic storms ever recocorded with winds upup t185 mph, Strong Enough to destroy full buildings. Puerto ricico has declared a sta of emergencyndnd actived t the nationalal guard. Ththe puerto ricican g governor ricacardo rossellolo warns the m could devastate the islands infrastructure. Puerto ricos Power Company says parts of the island could be left without power for up to six months. The bahamas are currently undertaking the largest evacuation in the nations history. Florida has also begun to close schools and evacuate residentst. Inin more climaterelated d new, widespreadad fires continue to burn across the pacific northwest. Montana governor Steve Bullock has declared a statewide fire disaster, calling the blazes unprecedented. Washington governor jay inslee has declared a state of emergency. On tuesday, seattle residents awoke to ash falling from the sky as a result of the widespread fires burning across Washington State. Satellite images also showed Washington State nearly entirely covered in smoke from the fires. A new United Nations report says more than n 1100 children n have been killed during the war in yemen, and that the majority of these children were killed by u. S. Backed saudileled airstrikes. The u. N. Also descriribed the ongoing humaninitarian crisis in yemen as an entirely manmade catastrophe. The ongoing war has left more than 7 Million People on the brink of fame. The u. S. Backed Bombing Campaign hahas also devastated yemens health, wawater, and sanitatatin systems, spaparking the worldss worsrst cholera epepidemic, with 600,000 peopople affected. The e United Nations secretarygeneral Antonio Guterres has warned the brutal Burmese Military operation against Rohingya Muslims is at risk of spiraling into an ethnic cleansing campaign, as the widespread violence against the long persecuted Minority Group continues. The u. N. Says more than 120,000 rohingyas have fled into neighboring bangladesh in recent days, with up to 15,000 more expected to flee every single day this week. Advocates say as many as 800 rohingya civilians, including women and children, have been killed in recent days. This is rohingya refugee ansar ali, speaking after fleeing to bangladesh. Usthere was another behind in which my relatives were there. Suddenly, that saying is the military started firing at us. 10 members of our family, including my son and grandson, were drowned in the sea. We somehow managed to escape. Amy more than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Nobel Committee to revoke burmas leader aung san suu kyis peace prize over the violence. Suu kyi claimed recent newews reports s about the military crackdown were misinformation and that the sececurity forces wewere fighting terrorism. United nations were crime investigations a searing Government Forces have usesed chemical weapons more than 25 times during the ongoing war, including during the deadly in april, which killed 86 people. The Syrian Government has long denied using chemical weapons. Meanwhile, in more news from syria, the Syrian Government says its forces have broken the isis siege on parts of the eastern city of dei alzor. And in india, prominent journalist and human rights activist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated on her doorstep in bangalore tuesday. She was an outspoken critic of rightwing hindu nationalism and the caste system. Last year, she was convicted in a Defamation Case brought by lawmakers from the ruling bjp party over her 2008 investigation into the politicians criminal ties. The Editors Guild of india called her murder ominous a brutal assault on the freedom of the press. On tuesday, protesters took to the streets across india to denounce her assassination, including in mumbai, delhi, and outside lankeshs home. Nearly m more protests are pland 20 for today. This is her brother r indrajit lanknkesh. It t is not just t my sistes murder. Itit is a journalist murder, and activistururder. As a brother, i want j justice r mymy sister. Now i have lost my sister. And she was giving everything. Or activism, journalism now we have lost her. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and i am Juan Gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. In a major attack on immigrant communities across the United States, attorney general Jeff Sessions has announced the Trump Administration is rescinding daca thats deferred action for childhood arrivals which gives nearly 800,000 young immigrants permission to live and work in the United States. Advised thate has the department of Homeland Security should begin an orderly, lawful wind down, including the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program. Amy president obama implemented daca in 2012 after nearly a decade of massive grassroots organizing and direct action protests by undocumented youth across the country. Obama called tuesdays announcement cruel. The trump Administration Says it will begin phasing out the protections in six months, meaning some Daca Recipients will be eligible for deportation as early as march 2018. Between now and then, congress could pass legislation that could protect Daca Recipients, as well as millions of other immigrants currently in the country without legal authorization. Sessions announcement Tuesday Morning sparked immediate protests across the country. In new york city, 34 people were arrested during a sitin at trump tower led by undocumented activists. I am here with the new York State Youth Leadership Council as well as on behalf of the undocumented initiative at columbia university. I am a daca recipient. It expires in december. I dont know what will happen to me. I just dont know. This shouldnt have happened. I am here hoping i could start leftl tomorrow and let my comfortably and focus on school. But now when my work permit expires, what is going to happen . Am i going to have to take refuge . And my never going to be a believed campus because that is the only way i will be protected against deportation . Hey have shown no discretion they are snatching you. That horrifies me. I have been here since 1999. I have not left this country since 2001. I have nowhere else to go. I am a daca recipient. I am feeling terrible right now. I have been here for 20 years this january. This is nothing short of heartbreaking. I was able to come out of the shadows, to be who i really wanted to be, who my mom wanted me to be. What my mom sacrificed for. It really breaks my heart. My name is catalina. We are fighting for all 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. An attack on daca is an attack on the entire undocumented community. Were here to say this fight goes beyond daca. It is for all of the workers in this country, those who work in the fields, in the restaurants, who are cleaning your homes, who have crossed borders. This is a fight for all of us because we all deserve respect. This fight is beyond daca. It is a fight for all undocumented immigrants in this country who provide our labor. This country runs on us. Without as some of this country would fall apart. Juan the head of u. S. Hispanic chamber of commerce javier , palomarez, resigned from Trumps NationalDiversity Coalition in protest, calling the decision to revoke daca inhumane and economically harmful. Both new york and california threatened to sue the Trump Administration to protect the states dreamers. In houston, daca recipient diana platas, who lost everything during Hurricane Harvey, spoke at a press conference in response to the daca news. We lost our hououse and everything we have the harvey. We lost everything my parents hahave built over the past sesel years. We have lostst, and now, this, too. We will fight. We will Pay Attention because we are not cowards. Were going to fight for our rights. Amy for more, we go to houston, texas, where were joined by Cesar Espinosa, executive director of fiel, a houstonbased nonprofit that helps young, undocumented members of the Latino Community. Cesar, welcome back to democracy now we talked to you by democracy now w video stream from yourr e when you were flooded in last week during Hurricane Harvey. We saw you this weekend. You have been going house to house, particularly going to people in Latino Community afraid to leave their houses, afraid they might be arrested by ice, even as the water rose. You yourself are a daca recipient. Can you respond to President Trumps decision to o rescind da . We definitely condemn the fight he decided to take away a very Important Program t that oy to dreamers, but the entire immigrant community. It is a shame he is chosen this titime in history to do it. We just went througugh one of te worst natural disasters in u. S. History and he decides to make this point now . Why . We have a lot of questions for President Trump and questions that need answers. More importantly, we need to continue to fight, to nonot only protect the dreamer community, but the entire immigrant community who are working every single d day to provide for society, provide for our economy, and just to live lives and free lives here in this country. Trumpin april, president actually assured the dreamers they could rest easy and in the past, he has made other statements that contradict what he has done. Do you have any sense from what you can tell what has happened in terms of his own perspective on dealing with the e dreamers . Getting a lote is of pressure from many sides, but we know he is also getting pressure even from his own party to keep the program and to defend dreamers. One of the things he says that really doesnt even make sense is the fact he says he loves dreamers. When you love somebody, you do everything you can to protect ththem and to defend them. For him to rescind the program, especially during these difficult times, does that make sense. It is a double narrative we see from the Trump Administration that they say one thing anand do anotother. Every time President Trump p haa failure, he goes back to rattle his base to garner more support for himself. We ask he stops playing games, specifically the dreamer community, but also with the immigrant community because we are not a game to be played with. We are human beings that have andt deserve to be here continued to stay with our families. Amy during exchange with reporters on tuesday, President Trump was questioned about his decision on daca. [inaudible] pres. Trump i have a great heart for the folks were talking about, a great love for them. People t think in terms of children, but they are really young adult. For these people. Hopefully, now, congress will be able to help them and do it properly. In speaking to members of congressss, they want to be abae to do something and do it right. Really, we have no choice. We have to be able to do something. I think it is going to work out well. Amy President Trump has such a , yes,love for you c,esar were talking about 800,000 young immigrants in this has usedbut that he his attorney general he did not hold a news conference, his attorney general did, Jeff Sessions, president obama repeatedly, through the campaign truck, expressed the same sentiment on this issue as his top adviser Stephen Miller has as well, Stephen Miller who is trumps top adviser but formally was taught person on sessions staff as senator. That he has decided that by march, people will be eligible for deportation unless congress moves. Tell us your own story. You are a daca recipient. When is your permission of . When do you apply for renewal . And you know any of these things . Yesterday, there were many questions. We did no