Originally posted on the Reform Immigration FOR America’s Blog.
By Sarah
A New York Times editorial this morning makes the case for the DREAM Act. As Congress winds down the current session, the Times writes, we’ve seen some amazing activism from the people the DREAM Act would affect most.
If the DREAM Act passes, credit must go to those who have fought for it most strenuously, at greater personal risk and inconvenience than anyone else: the young people whose futures it will decide. Thousands of students, calling themselves “undocumented and unafraid,” have led an admirable campaign of advocacy under the threat of arrest and deportation.
They have marched hundreds of miles, fasted for days, staged sit-ins and held bittersweet mock graduations. In letters and phone calls, on Twitter and Facebook, the DREAM activists have told their stories to whoever will listen, firmly confronting those who won’t.
Some of those actions have been happening this week. Right now in Texas, dozens of DREAMers are on a hunger strike to show Senator Hutchison their commitment to this fight.
The NYT again:
Gaby Pacheco once hugged Joe Arpaio, a sheriff in Arizona, momentarily disarming his anti-immigrant virulence. Recently, she and five others were in the office of Senator John McCain, a former Dream Act co-sponsor, urging him to summon the courage he now disowns. She reminded him of his promise in 2007 to fight for the bill. He begged off. She persisted: What about your promise? What about my family?
You can stand with Gaby, the strikers in Texas, and all the activists across the country working hard to pass the DREAM Act. Call your senator.