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Thanks to you and our supporters, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) celebrates a successful week of advocacy in Washington, D.C. last week, where more than 30 dreamers from across the country came together and participated in a 4-day journey to advocate for the restoration of DACA’s Advance Parole.
Through several advocacy activities, we brought about an unprecedented awareness on the importance and human impact Advance Parole had on DACA recipients, solidified a second cohort of Dreamers and support organizations, and returned energized with an action plan for the rest of the year. We were able to meet with more than 80 congressional offices to request their support and to express the urgent need to reinstate the permit that would allow Dreamers to travel outside of the U.S. for humanitarian, educational, and/or employment purposes.
Given the success, we are moving forward to the next phase of our National Campaign to Restore Advance Parole, which will include an advocacy week in the fall of 2019. We will also promote that all Dreamers that have suffered or are facing the loss of a loved one should apply for Advance Parole for humanitarian reasons. Part of this phase will include raising funds to cover the application fees for all those that have documented humanitarian cases. Stay connected for more information.
In addition, there will be a new letter addressed to the interim DHS secretary and USCIS director signed by over one hundred senators and congress members that have now expressed support for the Advance Parole Campaign. Moreover, we will work towards an Advance Parole amendment for all Deferred Action programs amendment, to a “must-pass bill” through the house Homeland Security appropriations committee. We will also work with congress to introduce a stand-alone bill to legislate Advance Parole for all Deferred Action programs. We will continue to pursue the possibility of filing class-action litigation against the Trump Administration for the arbitrary, discriminatory, and inhumane denial of Advance Parole to all DACA recipients.
We will also like to thank the participating Dreamers who took the initiative and time to join us in our advocacy efforts, as well as we also would like to thank all of the sponsors since the launching of the national campaign for funding the expenses of the advocacy trips.
The reasons why dreamers ask for permits to travel abroad
Some of the participating Dreamers pose in front of Capitol Hill. Photo by: Lidieth Arevalo
By: Lorena Arroyo, Univision News – 17 JUNE 2019
WASHINGTON D.C. - When Mayra Garibo was told that her father had suddenly died in an accident in Mexico, the 26-year-old’s first thought was that she had to find a way to return to her native country to be able to say her last goodbye.
"At that time all I thought was I need to see my dad after 18 years. I had nothing else in my mind," recalls the young woman. That's why, after meeting with her mother and brothers in Los Angeles, the city where they have resided since they arrived in the U.S. in 2001, she ran to seek a lawyer.
Garibo is a dreamer with DACA (the program that protects about 700,000 undocumented youth who came to the United States as children from deportation), and even though her father died on January 11, 2018, after a judge in San Francisco blocked President Donald Trump's decision to cancel the program, the court did not reinstate advance parole, a special permit that allowed DACA recipients to travel abroad...
"Miró el funeral de su papá por FaceTime": los motivos por los que los dreamers piden permisos para viajar al extranjero
Por: Lorena Arroyo ~ Univision ~ 17 de Junio 2019
Una mexicana que tuvo que despedirse de su padre fallecido por videollamada; un surcoreano que está a punto de renunciar a DACA para poder estudiar en una de las mejores escuelas de negocios del mundo. Estas son algunas de las historias que han escuchado los congresistas de boca de una delegación de dreamers que viajó a Washington para pedir que les restauren el advance parole.
Mayra Garibo (con traje negro y camisa blanca) fue una de las dreamers que contó su historia a los congresistas en Washington.Crédito: Lorena Arroyo
WASHINGTON DC.- Cuando a Mayra Garibo le dijeron que su padre había fallecido repentinamente en un accidente en México, la joven de 26 años solo pensó que tenía que encontrar la manera de regresar a su país natal para poder darle el último adiós.
"En ese momento todo lo que pensaba era ver a mi papá después de 18 años. No tenía otra cosa en mi mente", recuerda la joven. Por eso, tras reunirse con su madre y sus hermanos en Los Ángeles, la ciudad donde residen desde que llegaron a EEUU en 2001, corrió a ver a un abogado...
Buscan Apoyo Para Dreamers (Video)
Por: Caro Rico ~ Univision ~ 15 de Junio 2019
WAYS YOU CAN ENGAGE IN OUR CAMPAIGN TO RESTORE DACA'S ADVANCE PAROLE
- GET INVOLVED: Visit your local district offices and meet with an immigration staffer to speak about the importance of restoring Advance Parole.
- CONTACT CONGRESS: Call and write to your congress representatives and U.S. senators. To learn how to contact your congress Reps. and Senators, visit this website: www.advanceparole.org/take-action
- SPREAD THE WORD: Create awareness about Advance Parole in your community by talking to your friends and neighbors about this issue, as well as sharing on your social media networks#RestoreAdvanceParole
- DONATE HERE: to help us continue to expand the Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole, and continue to bring more Dreamers to advocate in Washington, D.C. Learn more about our campaign here.
THANK YOU
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all sponsors and individual donors who have donated to our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole so far. Without your support we would not have been able to take a total of 50 Dreamers to advocate in Washington, D.C. in January and June 2019.
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