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DACA recipients, families and advocates will push for permanent immigration status
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Posted Jun 18, 2021, 5:45 pm
Laura Gómez Arizona Mirror
Local and national immigrant rights groups made a promise to mark the 9th anniversary of the federal program benefiting thousands of immigrants who arrived in the country as children: Those young people who benefit from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals won’t be celebrating the program’s 10th anniversary.
“I don’t want to be here celebrating 10 years. We are going to be here celebrating that we achieved something permanent,” said Adonias Arevalo, director of Poder Latinx, a group that advocates for immigration, climate, and economic reforms.
Poder Latinx, the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, Corazon, Mi Familia Vota, AZ Jews for Justice, United Farm Workers and Poder in Action gathered to remember the nearly two decades that advocates have pushed for meaningful immigration reform and to mobilize support for two congressional proposals.
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061821_daca_status/daca-recipients-families-and-advocates-will-push-permanent-immigration-status/
