Texas, along with 9 other Republican states, are demanding that the Trump administration end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, otherwise, they’ve threatened to sue to try to end it themselves.  

I want to make one thing clear: DACA is still in effect. This news does not change that.

But we need to respond -- quickly. As a DACA recipient myself, I believe in our power. We will not let racist Republicans take away DACA. You and I have the power to defeat this. We are mobilizing as we speak to get you more details of how we are going to fight back. In the meantime, we need you to commit and join our fight.

DACA is a program that allows young immigrants like myself to work, study, drive and live with a level of normalcy and stability by allowing us to apply for temporary work permits, Social Security numbers and gives us protection from deportation! This two-year, renewable program is a huge victory won by DREAMers who came out, joined together and took action.

Conservatives may want to take away our dignity and respect, but I am hopeful that you, our community and our allies will have our back!

BACKGROUND:

On June 29, 2017 the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with 9 attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia along with the Governor of Idaho sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for the Secretary of Homeland Security to phase out DACA. In their ultimatum to the Trump Administration, the attorneys general present two options: get rid of DACA or they will fight to destroy it in the courts.

The letter goes on to state that the Trump Administration has until September 5th, 2017 to begin the phase-out of DACA: halting the renewal and issuing of new DACA or expanded DACA permits and calling for an ultimate end to the program.

If the administration does not act on the letter’s demand, the attorneys general will expand the lawsuit they used to end DAPA to now add a challenge to DACA.