rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/form/call-your-members-of-congress-defend-daca?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-form-area-call-your-members-of-congress-defend-daca' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Indivisible KC https://actionnetwork.org/groups/indivisible-kc https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/forms/photos/000/323/563/normal/DACA1.jpg In 2012, President Obama created the DACA program to grant relief from deportation to individuals who came to the U.S. as children, if they met a number of requirements (like [strict] background checks). It has allowed approximately 800,000 young people the opportunity to live and work lawfully in the U.S. A 2016 study revealed that DACA has created economic gains for the country through better employment and home purchases: 95% are currently working or in school 48% got a job with better working conditions 63% got a better paying job 90% got a driver’s license or state ID 54% bought their first car 12% bought their first home This program is a win for the young adults as well as for the US economy. Call your Senators and tell them to co-sponsor the bipartisan Durbin-Graham “DREAM Act” (S. 1615) to create a legislative fix to the predicament of these young Americans, and take their future out of Trump’s hands. Call your House Representative and tell her/him to co-sponsor Rep. Gutierrez’s American Hope Act (H.R. 3591) give those with DACA and others who arrived in the United States as children a path to permanent legal status and eventual citizenship. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/call-your-members-of-congress-defend-daca