Linda Datling-Hammond of Stanford University and the Learning Policy Institute, posted the following statement. She attacked many reseources for educators, but since I have to copy links manually, I am adding only one:
Keep the DREAM Alive
A message from Linda Darling-Hammond
On Tuesday, President Trump announced his plan to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Since it was implemented, the DACA program has ensured that nearly 800,000 children of immigrants—many of whom have no recollection of any country other than the U.S.—can safely attend school, earn degrees, and become contributing members of the country in which they were raised.
As educators and allies, we have dedicated our careers to creating safe, respectful, and welcoming spaces where children and youth are valued for who they are and supported to learn, grow, and bring their talents into the society. The repeal of DACA and the deportation of the children and young adults it protects is cruel and counterproductive: It flies in the face of country that is a nation of immigrants and where these “Dreamers” are working towards a better life each and every day.
And now Dreamers are being told to prepare for deportation, their futures frozen in an agonizing six-month stasis, facing the fear of leaving their home, their family and friends, and futures they have invested deeply in. Many are still school children, now living with the daily nightmare of being torn from their families and sent to a land they don’t know.
As educators and education advocates, we have an ever-increasing responsibility to protect our students, to be even more explicit in our belief in their potential, and to protect their right to learn and to become contributing members of society, just as generations of immigrants before them have done.
When our nation fails our children, our pathway is clear: We must double down on our collective work for equity, justice, and high-quality education and make sure that every student feels safe and empowered to learn, thrive, and realize their dreams.
We urge Congress to act quickly to integrate the protections of DACA into law.
Resource:
Southern Poverty Law Center:
DACA has 800,000 people who are either actively in the work force or getting schooling. Removing these people will cost $433.4 billion in GDP loss over a decade.
6% of DACA recipients already have businesses that employ American citizens. Almost 55% of DACA recipients have purchased a vehicle and more than one in ten have purchased their home.
They speak English and have acclimated into this culture because they came as children. It would be a crime on humanity to send them back to a place in which they are no longer are familiar.
I am counting on Congress to right this wrong and give these people a path to citizenship. According to two polls 78% of American voters support letting them stay permanently in America.
Everyone in the program has passed an extensive background check, paid a fee, and is a student or service member, or has a job.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as if the Attorney General, that gargoyle Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, cares about this at all. When he announced the end of the Dream program the other day, he was grinning all over the place.
An evil, evil man.
Evil squared
Coretta Scott-King had him figured out a long time ago. Her word is good enough for me.
Time to look into how much personal investment each non-documented-immigrant-deportation advocate has in immigrant detention center stock.
Your comment reminded me of a “This American Life” broadcast I listened to years ago; about how the draconian Obama deportation policies and anti-immigration state legislation affected Alabama, which was represented by Sen. Sessions. That set the stage of where we are today: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/456/reap-what-you-sow?act=1#play
Right. Jeff Sessions made a blatantly false statement about DACA recipients and their connections to health/medical benefits(which they don’t). What’s even more stupid is his false belief that DACA covers all unregistered immigrants. Nope. It covers only children of undocumented immigrants and those who were born after June 16, 1981. And that’s just a quarter or less portion of projected undocumented immigrants in the pool.
If I remember accurately, Linda Darling Hammond was rumored to be on the short list for Secretary of Education when Obama was elected. Imagine a world where SHE was appointed instead of Arne Duncan…
Obama’s first betrayal