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I feel like we need a thread to really explain how limiting it is to have to plan your life in two years, and now one-year intervals. Let’s say you want to buy a 
, would you make the investment knowing that you could potentially be out of a job in a year?
, would you make the investment knowing that you could potentially be out of a job in a year?
Families: we know that 254,000 U.S.-born children have at least one parent who holds #DACA; across the country, 1.5 million people live with a DACA recipient. Imagine going to sleep at night wondering if you’ll be able to stay together?
Employers: imagine losing talented workforce because an Administration refuses to honor immigrant contributions and would rather deport hardworking people contributing to America.
Did you know 
#DACA recipients and their households pay $5.6 billion in federal taxes, and $3.1 billion in state and local taxes, each year. Should we be losing 
in the middle of #COVID19 pandemic which has been a devastating blow to our local, state, and national economy?
#DACA recipients and their households pay $5.6 billion in federal taxes, and $3.1 billion in state and local taxes, each year. Should we be losing in the middle of #COVID19 pandemic which has been a devastating blow to our local, state, and national economy?
Mental health impacts: our gov’t keeps telling young, hardworking people that they don’t belong in America. On average, DACA recipients arrived in the United States in 1999, at age 7. And more than one-third of DACA recipients—37 percent—arrived before age 5. #HomeIsHere
Simply put, these policies benefit no one. Instead of playing politics with peoples’ lives, we should be investing in our economies, healing the soul of our nation, and moving people, families forward.
DACA recipients have shown us who they are, now it is time for us to show up for them. #DefendDACA #ProtectDreamers https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2020/04/03/482637/dreamers-help-keep-country-running-coronavirus-pandemic/
