Let your Voice be Heard in Unison for the DREAMers
For Immediate Release January 18, 2018 Let your Voice be Heard in Unison The Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum (the IF) calls concerned citizens in Champaign Country and across Illinois to join their elected representatives and magnify their voice by supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) young people. Let your voices be heard in unison by calling the leader of the Senate. Who is agreeing? All federal representatives for our county, Senator Durbin, Senator Duckworth, and Representative Davis agree that the young people affected should be helped ASAP. Who is affected? The Trump administration decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on March 6, 2018 sets into motion the deportation of hundreds of thousands of young adults or Dreamers who were brought to this country as children and know of no other country than the United States to call their home. Illinois has an estimated 42,000 DACA recipients. ...