Hispanic News Network U.S.A.: DREAMers, Allies And Members Of The Milwaukee Latino Community Marched In Support Of DACA

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

DREAMers, Allies And Members Of The Milwaukee Latino Community Marched In Support Of DACA

DREAMers, allies and members of the Latino community in Milwaukee marched in support of DACA.

By H. Nelson Goodson

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

September 6, 2017

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Wednesday, more than 5,000 DREAMers, allies and members of the Latino community including children marched in solidarity to support DACA. A rally was held at Walker's Square Park in support of DACA students and recipients. The rally was organized by the Young People's Resistance Committee (YPRC) formerly known as the Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES).

The YPRC rally organizers after providing several testimonials by DREAMers, they proceeded with a impromptu march along the predominantly Hispanic community in the Southside of Milwaukee.

There are approximately 8,000 registered DREAMers in the Milwaukee area, according to Voces de la Frontera, a workers and immigrant rights group.

The Milwaukee rally and march was one of multiple rallies around the nation since Tuesday when U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Trump's decision to recind Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which will gradually end within 6 months. Sessions apparently lied during his announcement, he said that DREAMers take jobs from Americans, which they don't; that DACA recipients are adults and illegal aliens, but have temporary legal status under DACA and arrived in the U.S. when they were at least 6-years-old at no fault of their own; that DREAMers drain benefits and Social Security, which they don't receive any public benefits and are not old enough to collect Social Security and that they are a danger to the U.S. and ending DACA would provide safety and security for Americans, which none of DACA recipients have criminal records.

Trump's decision to end DACA is the worst decision he has made as president, according to both Democrats and Republicans who have come out and condemn Trump for ending the program.

Trump's decision to recind Obama's DACA will create a $14B economic gap in the U.S. economy and will cost an additional $8B to deport expired DACA recipients. The 800,000 DACA registered recipients pay $500 each every two years to renew their legal status, which the U.S. government generates $400M in DACA fees to renew applications.

Ending DACA would cost an estimated loss in Social Security revenue of about $19.9B to the government in the next ten years, according to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. DACA recipients don't collect Social Security benefits.