FWD.us Dreamer Stories PUBLIC AFFAIRS CAMPAIGN PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION
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Project Summary THE CHALLENGE
FWD.us is a not-for-profit organization founded by leaders in the tech industry, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, dedicated to reforming the United States immigration system. FWD.us’ policy objectives include protecting “DREAMers,” young undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, many of whom consider the U.S. their true home and the only place they’ve ever known. Through an executive order called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), DREAMers have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. under certain stipulations. After the 2016 election, the DACA program came under fire from opponents and many feared the program would be repealed, revoking the work credentials of nearly a million law-abiding young people and subjecting them to potential deportation. These fears were realized in September 2017. FWD.us turned to S360 for help highlighting local stories of DACA recipients in Idaho, with the intent of demonstrating their positive economic impact and deep ties to their communities.
THE STRATEGY
Strategies 360 leveraged our personal ties in communities across the state to identify a handful of brave DACA recipients willing to participate in media outreach and share their stories with Congressman Raúl Labrador. We developed short, pitch-ready narratives describing each person’s situation and stakes, which we leveraged while pitching news stories and editorial board interviews to major daily papers across southern Idaho. Strategies 360 secured meetings between representatives of FWD.us, local DREAMers, and the editorial boards of the Idaho Statesman, Post Register, and Idaho Press-Tribune. Included in this packet are those stories and opinions which we facilitated in some way.
THE SUCCESS
Strategies 360’s work was reflected across southern Idaho. Both the Post Register and Idaho PressTribune published feature stories on DREAMers we helped them meet, and issued opinions in favor of passing legislation to codify DACA protections. In February, the Post Register feature was picked up on the front page of the Idaho Statesman, ultimately making its way to the “Today’s Front Pages” Gallery at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Following this, the Post Register invited a DREAMer to author a four-part opinion series on the broken immigration system. When the Trump administration announced the end of DACA, newspapers again turned to Strategies 360 to help them find sources for their reporting. The Post Register published yet another editorial urging lawmakers to support DREAMers. The Idaho Statesman, the state’s largest daily, turned to us for help finding a DREAMer they could profile for a front-page story that week. Later, reporter Ruth Brown named that story a “gem” of 2017.
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“JORGE,” IDAHO FALLS
Jorge has lived in Idaho since he was eighteen months old, but after graduating high school, he found himself Googling “moving back to Mexico but never been there.” As an undocumented worker in Idaho, he knew that his job prospects were limited. He’d taken his current job because he knew the employer wouldn’t verify his citizenship status, and he didn’t have many other options. “I knew I could do more,” he says. He’d previously tried to advance his education past high school, but found his options there also limited. “I got four scholarships for college, and I had to hunt them down—I had to find applications that didn’t require Social Security numbers. Then I still had to outshine everyone on my applications.” And since he was a non-resident, he had to come up with out-of-state tuition. After the first year of college, he realized he couldn’t afford to keep going, so he dropped out and continued working fulltime. Planning to move back to Mexico would mean leaving behind his family’s deep roots in Jefferson County. He explains that his family has lived in the area on and off since his father was a child, and permanently since 1991. He and his brothers all graduated from the same high school, and have worked for many local employers. “We’re part of a small community where everyone knows each other. We’re actively involved in our church; we did school activities.” The U.S. is his home, says Jorge, “But I didn’t want a life of looking over my shoulder constantly, and hoping that someday something would change in the U.S. I wanted to create the change myself if it wasn’t going to come to me.” He started planning to move to Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourist destination where his fluent English would be useful. “I consider myself an American. I speak pretty fluent Spanish, but I don’t have an accent.” Before Jorge could finalize his plans, the White House announced the rollout of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which would allow him hundreds of thousands of others to stay in the U.S. and work legally. “The best day of my life was the day that DACA was announced. My siblings and parents were all calling each other; we were all crying.” Jorge says he got his DACA card on December 21st, 2012 and had a job interview at a different employer within days. “Initially I took a pay cut, but it was worth it because I was finally doing something I liked,” he says. Three months later, he got a promotion. He also attends the school and is working to become licensed in his field of study. Under DACA, the future is looking up for Jorge. “Professionally, I want to continue growing my skills and knowledge, and prove to our government that it was the right choice to offer these opportunities to someone like myself who had no choice to come here.” With the future of DACA in question under the Trump Administration, Jorge hopes to see Congress act to create a permanent solution to the limbo state that he and 3,000 other Idahoans find themselves in. “In the same way that you can be raised by different people than the ones who gave birth to you, I was born in Mexico but raised by America. I want to stay here because I want to be part of it and to help. I hope that they understand that we’re here because want to work hard and make this place better.” THE VELTEX BUILDING, 420 WEST MAIN STREET, SUITE 205 | BOISE, IDAHO 83702
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Yuni is a student at College of Western Idaho who’s been living in the US since she was a year old She immigrated with her parents to Emmett, Idaho, where her uncle was already living and working. After arriving in the US, Yuni’s parents had two more children, a boy and a girl. Yuni’s parents worked hard to be able to send her to college, saving the money from her father’s job on a dairy and her mother’s job managing a fast-food restaurant for a car and tuition help. But when Yuni started applying for college her junior year, she realized that her undocumented status might stand in the way of being able to get the postsecondary education she and her family had been preparing for. “I believe everything happens for a reason,” says Yuni. “When DACA was created, it was such a huge blessing. I wouldn’t be able to further my education, drive, or work legally. Now I’m doing what my parents set out for me to do.” Yuni appreciates the support that her parents provide while she’s in school, but she knows that the costs strain their budgets. “My dad got me a car, tells me to ask for help with whatever I need, because they want me to keep going, for nothing to stop me. But I didn’t want to ask him for so much, so I got a part-time job as a CNA so that I can at least pay for my own gas.” Despite the looming threat of DACA’s repeal under the Trump administration, Yuni keeps a positive outlook and keeps her focus on what she can do. “I’m doing my best—getting the best grades I can— to be the best possible nurse Idaho can have. This is my home, and I don’t want them to take that away from me.”
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“ISABELLE,” BOISE
At the age of two, Isabelle and her younger brother moved from Mexico to the United States. Along with their mom, they joined their dad, godparents and aunts and uncles here in Idaho. By the time she was 16, Isabelle had her first job, working at a local diner. By 2012, when she was able to apply for protection under DACA she was able to get a new job with better pay at a distribution warehouse. Isabelle spent her schooling in Idaho always dreaming of heading on to higher education after high school. “It’s always been my dream to go to college,” says Isabelle. Once she was old enough and out of high school, Isabelle enrolled in school at the College of Western Idaho. Prior to the implementation of DACA, she couldn’t obtain a driver’s’ license, so the long daily commute made her nervous. After a semester and a half, the nerves got the better of her and Isabelle was forced to drop out of college. Later Isabelle began to hear news of legislative acts, giving her hope, that college would be an option again. Once Isabelle could drive worry-free, she says, “the first thing I did was register for college.” Since then she has been focusing her studies on political science and criminal justice. After graduating from CWI this spring, Isabelle will attend Boise State University, where she plans to major in political science. Prior to DACA, Isabelle also faced a problems when she wanted to volunteer with the Humane Society and needed to provide an official ID. In situations like these she would have to use her passport. Now that she has a valid driver’s license, volunteering has become a lot easier. Moving back to Mexico would mean a whole new lifestyle, as Isabelle has become accustomed to her life here in the United States. She says, “even though I don’t have residency or citizenship [America] is my home. This is the [only] home I know and have ever known.” With her future in the United States, Isabelle hopes to “finish my education and go to law school with the hopes of being an immigration lawyer.” She plans to “stay in Idaho, working, volunteering and doing what (she) can to add to the community.”
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“MANUEL,” MERIDIAN
Manuel isn’t the kind of person to worry a lot about his circumstances. Which is why, when the White House instituted DACA in 2012, he didn’t initially think to apply for protections despite his undocumented status. “When you look at me, you don’t think ‘illegal immigrant,’” says Manuel. “I never worried about it.” His wife, Amy, sees things differently. “That’s just his personality,” she notes. “I think he feels like nothing could happen to him because he feels so American, but we have different views. I assume the worst and he assumes the best.” Only at his parents’ insistence did Manuel apply for DACA. “That was lazy and irresponsible, looking back. I should have been more aggressive.” When Manuel was offered the opportunity to take a salaried job as a manager at a restaurant in Meridian, the importance of his DACA status became more real to him. “Without DACA I wouldn’t have been able to get that job,” he says. And he understands that thanks to DACA, he’s already been afforded a better and easier life than his parents had. “My dad works seven days a week; he goes in rain or snow or shine, and he makes about $35,000 a year. His whole life, doing really laborious work, that’s as far as it’s going to go.” In 2014, Amy and Manuel’s daughter was born; Amy and Manuel wed the next year. When they met with an immigration lawyer in 2015, he explained that despite their marriage and child, the process of becoming a permanent resident wouldn’t be as easy or straightforward as they had assumed. “It’s not like the movies,” says Amy. Because Manuel didn’t originally enter the country legally, he couldn’t follow traditional green card processes, and if he tried to leave and reenter legally, he risked being barred from the U.S. for years. The options that remained were expensive: all told, they’d need to come up with about ten thousand dollars. “If we had the money, we’d make it happen,” says Manuel. But at the age of twenty-five, with a two-year-old daughter, saving up that kind of money doesn’t happen quickly. In the meantime, Amy and Manuel wait—and Amy worries—that the Trump administration will follow through on promises to repeal DACA. It’s clear that Manuel’s desire to be there for his daughter and wife instills a sense of urgency that he didn’t feel a few years ago. Their wellbeing, more than his own, drive him to keep renewing his DACA status and keep saving for the green card process. “I don’t want to leave my kid hanging,” he says. “If I got deported, I couldn’t live with myself.” Amy explains that it’s not just the fear of deportation that bothers her, it’s also the taboo. “I’m proud of who we are as a family. We own a house, we’ve kept our jobs for a long time. Manuel started as a busboy and worked his way up to manager. But there’s this terrible connotation.” In a somber moment for Manuel, he acknowledges this too. “I feel like Amy’s taken a step down for marrying me. I want to stop feeling guilty for being Mexican.”
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Guest column: Life before and after DACA A local DACA card holder PUBLICATION: Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID)
DATE: March 22, 2017 Page: A007
SECTION: Opinions Editor's Note: The author is a DACA card holder who grew up in eastern Idaho. Because of the tenuous situation of current DACA residents in this country, the Post Register has granted him anonymity so that he may tell his story. Think about the moments when your life took an enormous and positive turn: maybe the day you met your significant other, the birth of your first child or the day you graduated from college. The day I received my DACA card was like that. DACA stands for "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals," a program created by executive action in 2012 to allow young, undocumented immigrants like myself to live and legally work in the U.S. without fear of deportation. To qualify, I had to pass an extensive background check, pay a fine, prove that I came to the U.S. before the age of sixteen and show that I capitalized on that opportunity by completing at least a high school education. In my small eastern Idaho community, everyone knew me. My family has roots here dating back to the 1960s, and my parents crossed the border with me when I was eighteen months old. I have never been back; if you've vacationed in Mexico, you have more memories there than I do. Before DACA, I pretended to live in the open, but in actuality, I was constantly hiding. I didn't drive until I was eighteen, when my parents took me to another state to obtain a drivers' license (you can't get one in Idaho if you're undocumented). While some of my high school classmates were courted by colleges with generous financial aid offers, I scraped together a few scholarships that didn't require a social security number on the application. I took a job where I knew I would never be promoted, with a company I hoped would never verify my legal status. I freelanced on the side in hopes of building a career with a future. I hadn't heard anything about the status of my green card application since I'd submitted it nearly twelve years earlier. I understand why some people don't like the way DACA was implemented. They feel that the executive action was a power move by an impatient president; that it sacrificed long-term progress for a short-term win; that it pre-empted Congress passing comprehensive immigration reform. I respect the importance of the lawmaking process, but for thousands of Idahoans like me, our lives were passing, our potential wasted and our hope draining, while some people in Congress played political games with real lives. After 22 years of waiting, scrapping, striving, to piece together a role in my community without the ability to work legally, I knew that my life, and by extension my community, were better off because of the new opportunities open to me. With my DACA card in hand, I almost immediately obtained a different job and then a promotion. I'm completing postsecondary schooling and will soon be licensed in my field. Some things haven't changed since my DACA card arrived. I still can't apply for federal financial aid. I can't visit family in Mexico or travel outside U.S. borders. To those members of Congress, including Idaho's own, who are working toward real and permanent change, I thank you. I don't want to live like this forever either. All I ask is to not be forced back into the shadows while we wait for Congress to agree on a better system for all Americansincluding those of us who aren't citizens.
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Guest column: Invisibility becomes second nature A local DACA card holder PUBLICATION: Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID)
DATE: April 9, 2017
SECTION: Opinions The facts show undocumented immigrants are not a negative force, and not a neutral force, but a positive one. Editor's Note: The author is a DACA card holder who grew up in eastern Idaho. Because of the tenuous situation of current DACA residents in this country, the Post Register has granted him anonymity so that he may tell his story. When you're undocumented, trying to make yourself invisible becomes almost second nature. Perhaps the role of undocumented immigrants in this community has become obscured, too. I sense this when I encounter people who hold no personal animosity for undocumented immigrants, but who believe that we're taking more from the system than we can contribute, in struggling to make a better life. Let me be clear: the facts show we're not a negative force, and not a neutral force, but a positive one. Let's start by looking at the economic impact of people like my parentstraditional undocumented immigrants. Forty percent of Idaho's undocumented immigrants work in agriculture, and according to the Idaho Dairymen, 85 percent of the dairy workforce is undocumented. Clearly, undocumented laborers prop up some of our state's most important industries. Idaho's undocumented immigrants also pay about $26.7 million in state and local taxes each year, and another $33.8 million in federal taxes. They cannot draw Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, or most other public benefits, and have still managed to amass $473 million in annual spending power. Idaho's 3,000 DACA recipientschildren who immigrated illegally with their families, were later vetted, and are now allowed to work legallysaw our economic prospects improved thanks to DACA. A 2014 study revealed that 69 percent of DACA recipients got a job with better pay and 92 percent of us pursued educational opportunities that we otherwise couldn't haveeven though we still cannot receive federal student aid. We weaved ourselves into the very fabric of our communities: we got married (often to American citizens), we bought homes and cars, we started businesses, we had children. Cato Institute, a conservative think tank, calculates the positive economic impact of DACA recipients nationally at $215 billion, and the fiscal benefit to our government at $60 billion. We spend the money we've earned in the stores that our neighbors own, and we're creating opportunities for others. Here in Idaho, a repeal of DACA would reduce the state's annual GDP by more than $155 million. We also bring an intangible benefit to Idaho's economy. I wrote previously that I know what it's like scrapping and striving for nearly every opportunity. That experience forges a powerful kind of motivation in a personthe kind of drive needed to start your own business, or to invent something, or to work full time and study on the side. It's the kind of ambition that I believe makes us indispensable to our employers and our communities. The 2016 election placed the role of undocumented immigrants front and center in our national dialogue, and after Trump's surprising win, writers have penned millions of lines about our nation's divide. I believe, though, that we're still united in our fundamental belief in the American Dream, the story that explains how we think our country ought to work. This story holds that your fate shouldn't be defined by the circumstances in which you were born, but by how hard you're willing to work for a better life. Idaho's undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients give more than we take. And for that reason, I believe we deserve to stay, and to keep participating in the American Dream.
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Guest column: Looking for a path forward A local DACA card holder PUBLICATION: Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID)
DATE: May 20, 2017 Page: A006
SECTION: Opinions In March, eight House Republicans introduced the Remembering America's Children Act, intended to provide a pathway to citizenship for young people like me. As with DACA, the program that currently allows me to live and legally work in the U.S. without fear of deportation, this new bill applies only to undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. prior to the age of sixteen, who pass a background check, and who have graduated high school. The RAC Act proposes to do what the DACA executive order couldn't: Provide me a way out of this limbo state, with access to the full rights and responsibilities of American citizenship. In order to be granted this opportunity, I must demonstrate my willingness and ability to stay employed, serve honorably in the military, or graduate from an institute of higher education over a fiveyear period. The bill's passage would be a victory for me and others in my situation. But its introduction also points to one of the defining flaws in our immigration system: currently, there is no way for many undocumented immigrants to "get right" with the law. I've heard people ask why undocumented immigrants don't simply return to their home countries and apply for a visa to enter legally. It's the "get in the back of the line" argument. For most immigrants, going "home" is even more untenable than continuing to live in the shadows here in the U.S. Depending on how long you have been here illegally, you're subject to three or tenyear bars from reentering the United States once you leave. For the millions of undocumented immigrants with citizen spouses and children, separating for that long is a nonstarter. Other undocumented people face a different challenge: If you don't have any citizens or green card holders in your immediate family, it's virtually impossible to obtain a green card, especially if you don't have an advanced degree or specialized skill. Despite the fact that undocumented immigrants add tremendous value to our economy and prop up some of our biggest industries, there aren't enoughor the right kindsof employment visas for all the undocumented workers we need to fill our jobs. Our immigration system is also incredibly complex. In my personal experience, there are about as many different perspectives on the best way to navigate the system as there are immigration lawyers. On top of that, there's the cost: attorney bills, application fees and work absences make engaging with the immigration system an expensive proposition. The story of American immigration is one of long odds: from the earliest European immigrants who traveled here by ship over rough seas, to the young Irish fleeing the potato famine, to children escaping across the Central American desert to leave behind gang violence, people coming to the U.S. to build a new life have never had it easy. But one difference is that today's immigration system can be even more challenging, daunting and complex to navigate. Undocumented immigrants aren't looking for an easy out or a free ride. We're looking for a way forward. The author is a DACA card holder who grew up in eastern Idaho. Because of the tenuous situation of current DACA residents in this country, the Post Register has granted him anonymity so that he may tell his story. This is part three in a series. Find parts 1 and 2 on our website, www.postregister.com.
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Guest column: Despite concerns, I’m hopeful
DATE: June 2, 2017
A local DACA card holder PUBLICATION: Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID) SECTION: Opinions Carimer Andujar is a college student who lives more than 2,300 miles from my home in Eastern Idaho. Despite the distance between us, we share much in common. Like me, she is Hispanic with parents who illegally crossed the border when she was young. Like me, she has status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and is committed to getting an education and being a positive contributor to her community. We also share the fact we're living in a political climate that has created uncertainty with our DACA status, despite President Trump's admonition that we can "rest easy" under his current policy. Last month, Andujar was informed that she needed to meet with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in New Jersey. In a newspaper story about her case, Andujar said she is worried and concerned about her future in this country and her dreams of graduating from Rutgers University. She's not alone. In recent months, there have been numerous reports of DACA recipients being detained, arrested and accused of things that imperil their status. But my point is not about sounding alarms. Instead, it's to urge Idaho's congressional delegation to collaborate with their House and Senate colleagues to eliminate the uncertainty and doubt that lingers for the 3,000 DACA recipients in Idaho and the more than 750,000 nationwide. There are simply too many consequences for not debating and passing comprehensive immigration reforms. Consider what's at stake for families, businesses and the health and economic vitality of communities across Idaho if we continue to delay. At one time, DACA status provided stability and security, but the new administration and different solutions to immigration have created barriers and rekindled anxiety. Take the example of Julio Ramos, a 24yearold biology teacher in Texas who dreams of becoming a doctor. Although he's been accepted to Loyola University of Chicago's medical school, he's unable to go because he can't afford tuition. In the past, the school, in collaboration with private lenders, has provided financial aid to DACA students. But shifts in immigration policies have forced those investors to pull back out of concern their investments may not come to fruition. These new barriers are creating so many unintended consequences, including the reality that so many with so much potential to make a positive contribution are being denied the chance to pursue those goals. Over the years, I've learned to adapt and understand the value of being flexible. I believe the same is true for many DACA recipients across the country. We also understand how to live within certain parameters, of making the most of the opportunities available. But the lack of certainty in our immigration policy undermines our ability to advance, to take the next step to better our lives as well as those in our immediate families, neighborhoods and communities. Without certainty, clear parameters in which to operate, I'm limited in the things I can achieve and the ways in which I can contribute. Despite my concerns, I am hopeful. America has always been about tackling complex challenges. Some of our country's greatest moments have emerged when leaders recognized being pragmatic was more important than winning an argument. Our history is built on examples of courageous leaders finding a way to overcome differences and compromise in hopes bettering people's lives.
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Yuni Rueda is a young woman who is working to get ahead in life. She has been in Canyon County for almost all her life, attended Wilder schools and is now a student at the College of Western Idaho. She has high ambitions for herself, the kind that would make any parent proud. “I’m doing my best — getting the best grades I can — to be the best possible nurse Idaho can have,” she says. “This is my home, and I don’t want them to take that away from me.” We don’t want to see anything like that happen to her, either. But everything she has worked for could vanish with a stroke of a pen from President Trump. Instead of pursuing her career in a country that she has called home for 18 of her 19 years, she could be facing the ugly prospect of deportation to Mexico — a country she knows nothing about, aside from being born there. There is a remedy to this problem, although temporary, but it’s one that the Idaho congressional delegation should get behind. The Bridge Act, a bipartisan bill that has been introduced in both Houses, would put the brakes on massive deportation plans — a big part of Trump’s campaign for the presidency — and bring some certainty to the lives of about 750,000 people who are in a similar position of Yuni. If approved, the act would be in effect for only three years. Hopefully, that would give time for cooler heads to prevail, and for the president and Congress to make fixes to a broken immigration system. It’s worth a shot. Bucking the president, and stirring things up in Congress, is a tall order for our all-GOP congressional delegation during the early days of a new administration. But no one could blame our Idaho members of Congress for doing what’s right from a human standpoint, while exercising their role in a separate — but equal — branch of government. If they wait for Trump to do something, it might be too late.
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House editorial: The Dreamers among us
DATE: February 16, 2017
ID) SECTION: Opinions Last week the Post Register editorial board met with a very nice young man. He's a graduate of an area high school. A popular kid, he was active in school activities and clubs and was able to win scholarships so he could afford his first year at the College of Southern Idaho (CSI) though he and his parents don't have a lot of money. In our hour-long meeting, he was warm, sweet, charming and articulate. We'd be delighted to tell you more about him, but we can't. Not after what happened in Seattle late last week, probably around the same time we were chatting in the Post Register offices. The young man we met is a "Dreamer" - a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program registrant - and he lives now where he has lived almost all his life: Eastern Idaho. Why the secrecy? News broke Tuesday that U.S. immigration officials had arrested a DACA registrant late last week in Seattle. That man, Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, was brought illegally to the United States as an elementary-aged child and was legally in the United States under DACA registration. He has no criminal record. A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Ramireza dmitted to being a gang member, though Ramirez and his lawyers "unequivocally" deny this. Ramirez is currently being detained without charges. Our own Idaho Falls Dreamer does not have a criminal record. In fact, he seems like a pretty normal millennial-aged guy who has life goals and is doing his best to meet them. One goal was to get a college degree, but after it became clear that without a social security number, he couldn't get a job that would pay enough for another year at CSI, he moved back home. Then, in late 2012, Pres. Barack Obama announced DACA. Our Dreamer said it was the best day of his life. After he proved he had been brought to the country as a minor under the age of 16, that he had continually resided in the U.S. from June 15, 2007, to the present and that he "did not pose a threat to national security or public safety," he was granted permission to legally live and work in the U.S. Our Dreamer is an upstanding citizen, a taxpayer and an ambitious, hard worker whose main goal is to get a degree, if possible. And if he can't, he just wants to work at a job that he enjoys, a possibility that opened up to him only after he received his DACA card. He deserves to achieve that dream. He made good grades in school. He does such exceptional work at his current job, in fact, he moved his way up to having the responsibilities of a manger. After a life spent doing the right thing, checking all the boxes, being the absolute best American he can be, our Dreamer shouldn't have to go back to being unsure about his status and constantly looking over his shoulder. Given the urgency of unanswered questions about how the Trump administration will handle DACA registrants, it's time for Congress to act to protect the Dreamers among us. One opportunity comes from a bill introduced in January, H.R. 496, better known as the BRIDGE Act. The bill has bipartisan support and would allow between 3,000 to 5,000 Dreamers in the state of Idaho and as many as 750,000 across the U.S. to stay in the country legally for three years, or until a permanent solution is found. We can't tell you who he is, but take our word for it - our very own Dreamer is, indeed, an American in all but his right to live his life without fear.
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House editorial: Deferral of the American dream DATE: September 3, 2017
SECTION: Opinions Page: A007 Editor's note: Jorge is not the real name of the DACA recipient featured in this article. The Post Register has given the source anonymity. Once you've met a Dreamer in real life, it's hard to get him or her out of your head. The local Dreamer who has graced the Post Register's Commentary page over the course of 2017 had this to say on Friday about the news President Trump may be making changes to the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has let him live life in the open for the first time: "I don't lose hope or my positive mind that something good will come of this. God knows why he does what he does…It will be okay, and if it isn't right away it will be eventually." When you realize what is on the line for " Jorge" a good, taxpaying, lawabiding and educated citizen, who has only known eastern Idaho and the United States as his home since he was a baby, who has never set foot in Mexico since he was, as an infant, driven across the border on the lap of a documented woman pretending to be his mom this reaction isn't just graceful, it's amazing. If his deferred status is rescinded next week, Jorge could be deported. After all, Dreamers like Jorge handed over their futures to the federal government when they registered for DACA. In exchange for two years to live as Americans, Dreamers must endure rigorous and recurring background checks, meaning ICE knows where and who they are. He would leave behind a brother who was born in the United States, his hometown, his home state, his job, his apartment and car, his friends and he would be forcibly removed to what is "his" country as a technicality only. Even if Pres. Trump decides to let Dreamers finish out their twoyear deferred deportations, what then? Jorge will still eventually be sent to live in a country he hasn't set foot in since he was a baby. He was raised as an American and DACA let him get the closest he has ever been to his fullfledged American dream. What can be done to help him? Congress needs to find agreement on a path to citizenship for Dreamers like Jorge and Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter needs to walk back his rhetoric on suing the federal government if they don't rescind DACA. Many Republicans in Congress refuse to support DACA program as it is right now because it was created through an executive order by Pres. Barack Obama. They see it as an executive overreach, so rather than work toward a solution (the "deferred action" part of DACA) for these 800,000 individuals, the Republicancontrolled Congress has waited until the last possible minute. Ten states' attorneys general (including Otter) have said they'll sue the federal government to get rid of DACA. The lawsuits move forward on Sept. 5, the same day Trump has said he will announce his plans for the program. But there are some bipartisan and even conservative solutions working their way through Congress. Lawmakers head back to Washington, D.C. Tuesday with an overloaded slate: Rumor has it Congress will make another push to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They'll also face the debt ceiling and tax reform. One thing you can do for Jorge is call or write to your representatives, senators and Gov. Otter, and let them know you support creating a path for Dreamers, who are, in basic terms, lawabiding citizens who happily contribute to our local economy. If we can't support the dreams of these young adults who arrived in the U.S. as children and babies and were raised as Americans, where will the American dream stand in our future?
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Chasing the American dream KEVIN TREVELLYAN PUBLICATION: Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID)
DATE: April 2, 2017 Page: A001
SECTION: Daily Email, Featured, News, West Editor's note: Jorge is not the real name of the DACA recipient featured in this article. The Post Register has given the source anonymity. In order to ensure that anonymity, the names of other sources also have been changed. As a child growing up in Jefferson County during the 1990s, Jorge spent dozens of late fall mornings picking rocks and dirt clods off conveyor belts carrying potatoes from the spud harvest before they were stored in cellars for the winter. He was excited to spend two weeks out of school each year, though eventually the vacations turned to labor as his body grew capable of shouldering more responsibility. As a teenager he drove trucks through sorting areas, where he would also load and unload spuds, before one year deciding agriculture wasn't for him. He worked instead in a grocery store through high school, but dreamed of a life he thought was out of reach. Jorge was brought to the United States illegally. Not yet 2 years old, he was driven across the Mexican border on the lap of a documented family friend pretending to be his mother. Though Jorge once resented the risk his parents exposed him to, he's come to appreciate the decision. "Even though we were living the way we lived here, we were better off than in Mexico. Poverty, safety, in all aspects, there was no future for us there," Jorge said. "Some people say it's my parents' fault; they should pay the price. My parents were looking for a better future. How many of you would do the same thing to protect your kids?" What does a Trump presidency mean? Growing up, Jorge had an eye toward the future and another over his shoulder, fearful of deportation to a country he never knew. Those fears were alleviated in 2012, when he was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program, initiated by President Barack Obama, grants renewable work permits and temporary Social Security cards to immigrants brought into the country illegally as children: "dreamers." A stopgap measure, DACA doesn't provide a path to citizenship. But Jorge, then 22, suddenly had a legal avenue to a goodpaying job, and the peace of mind to pursue it. Five years later, his fears of deportation have returned. President Donald Trump's conflicting rhetoric about those living in the country illegally has caused unrest in the migrant community. When he announced his candidacy in 2015, Trump drew criticism for saying, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting." In 2016, while on the campaign trail, Trump promised to "immediately terminate" the DACA program. In February, he claimed his administration would "deal with DACA with heart." Dreamers, however, have still been detained in recent months. ‘What if my parents were taken away?' Jorge didn't find out he was undocumented until middle school. Before that, his childhood wasn't much different from those of his primarily white peers. Jefferson County's rural expanse meant friends lived too far away to visit on foot, so childhood playtime was often built into the schedules of adults. THE VELTEX BUILDING, 420 WEST MAIN STREET, SUITE 205 | BOISE, IDAHO 83702 STRATEGIES360.COM Thanksgiving, recorded each year by Jorge as soon as he could hold a camcorder, was accompanied by a turkey and all the trimmings.
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would do the same thing to protect your kids?" What does a Trump presidency mean? Growing up, Jorge had an eye toward the future and another over his shoulder, fearful of deportation to a country he never knew. Those fears were alleviated in 2012, when he was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program, initiated by President Barack Obama, grants renewable work permits and temporary Social Security cards to immigrants brought into the country illegally as children: "dreamers." A stopgap measure, DACA doesn't provide a path to citizenship. But Jorge, then 22, suddenly had a legal avenue to a goodpaying job, and the peace of mind to pursue it.
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Five years later, his fears of deportation have returned. President Donald Trump's conflicting rhetoric about those living in the country illegally has caused unrest in the migrant community. When he announced his candidacy in 2015, Trump drew criticism for saying, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting." In 2016, while on the campaign trail, Trump promised to "immediately terminate" the DACA program. In February, he claimed his administration would "deal with DACA with heart." Dreamers, however, have still been detained in recent months. ‘What if my parents were taken away?' Jorge didn't find out he was undocumented until middle school. Before that, his childhood wasn't much different from those of his primarily white peers. Jefferson County's rural expanse meant friends lived too far away to visit on foot, so childhood playtime was often built into the schedules of adults. Thanksgiving, recorded each year by Jorge as soon as he could hold a camcorder, was accompanied by a turkey and all the trimmings.
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For Wilder nursing student, Trump policy on DACA brings uncertainty By OLIVIA WEITZ oweitz@idahopress.com Feb 9, 2017
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WILDER — Like many college students, Yuni Rueda splits her time between the classroom and the job that enables her to pay tuition and cover the costs of food, rent and other expenses. But these days, Rueda is worrying about more than her GPA, making nancial ends meet and her job as a certi ed nursing assistant. The 19-year-old, who grew up in Wilder and graduated from high school there last year, is not a legal citizen. So for her, there is the added concern that she could wake up one morning to learn that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — the executive order signed by President Obama in 2012 to protect those who entered the country before the age of 16 — will be declared null and void by President Trump. Rueda believes her anxiety is not unfounded. In last year’s campaign, Trump vowed to eliminate the DACA program as part of his broader plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system. That stance on DACA appears to have softened in recent weeks as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters recently that the DREAMERS program would be managed in a “humane way.” For Rueda and other DACA bene ciaries, elimination of the program could mean being sent back to Mexico, away from her family and the place she’s called home since she arrived here in Canyon County when she was just one-year-old. https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/for-wilder-nursing-student-trump-policy-on-daca-brings-uncertainty/article_57e4c9d1-56e4-55f5-a5f4-a88d49871ddb.html
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“Who know’s what’s going to happen,” said Rueda, who became emotional and teary last week when asked to talk about the potential elimination of DACA. “If they do take DACA away, we would work until God forbid they tell us we have to leave.” But some leaders in Congress are looking for alternative solutions for dealing with those registered under DACA, which in Idaho includes more than 3,000 by some estimates. Last month, Senators and Representatives from both parties introduced the BRIDGE ACT, which would allow those who received a temporary work permit and deportation relief through DACA to continue living in the United States for three years. The proposed legislation was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and in the House with the support of Rep. Mike Co�man, R-Co., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. The lawmakers say the bill would provide protection for the 750,000 DACA recipients across the United States to remain here for the next three years, a period they believe is enough to give leaders time to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Members of Idaho’s congressional delegation could not be reached on Friday to comment on whether they support the BRIDGE Act, and so far House and Senate leadership have yet to signal support for the measure. But the proposal has earned the backing of Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., who represents a district in eastern Washington heavily reliant on agriculture. “These children and young adults deserve stability here in the U.S. while Congress comes together on long-term immigration reform to provide a permanent solution for them, secure our borders, and build a reasonable and accessible immigration system going forward,” Newhouse wrote in a press release. Proponents of the BRIDGE Act, including FWD.us., a coalition backed by the technology industry that supports a comprehensive legislative x to immigration, say there are economic and moral reasons for providing temporary protection to DACA registrants like Rueda. Brian Walsh, a Republican consultant working with FWD.us, said DACA registrants tend to be better educated, are working in higher paid jobs and have avoided legal troubles. He said 6 percent of DACA registrants own businesses or work in professions like nursing or teaching. “With a stroke of a pen (eliminating DACA), ... would not just on a moral level but on an economic level, have huge consequences,” Walsh said in an interview Friday. “These are people who were brought here, not of their own doing, and they’ve been living in this country. The idea that we would punish them ... and send them back to a country they don’t know isn’t right.” Research by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, determined that the average DACA registrant is similar in many ways to Rueda, educated, hard working and contributing to the economy and the community around them. More speci cally, the research by Cato showed the average DACA bene ciary is 22 years old and makes $17 per hour. Walsh said 6 percent of DACA registrants own their own businesses, many of which employ native Americans. Comparing recipients to an immigration program, the H-1B visa program, Cato researcher estimates that deporting 750,000 DACA recipients would cost the federal government $60 billion, leading to a reduction of $280 billion in economic growth over the next 10 years. But those hoping the Trump administration will take a harder line on immigration are urging Republicans not to support the BRIDGE Act. In an interview in the Washington Post last month, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for curbing all forms of immigration, said he worries the legislation will lead to an amnesty of sorts for DACA bene ciaries. “It would be just formalizing the Obama’s amnesty for those individuals without anything else in return,” said Krikorian. For her part, Rueda said she wanted to speak publicly about her situation in hopes of increasing awareness and showing Idahoans the potential consequences of immigration reform policy. She wants the public to understand how ending a program like DACA could impact her, her family and the dreams she holds for her future in this country.
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Rueda is using her DACA status to pursue a career in nursing, rst here at the College of Western Idaho. In May, she’ll nd out whether she’s been awarded a DREAMERS scholarship, which would provide her with $75,000 toward a bachelor’s of science in nursing degree at Eastern Oregon University. Rueda said she’s hopeful her family, which includes two younger siblings who were born in the United States, will be able to stay in Wilder and that one day she will become a nurse, a career she was motivated to pursue after seeing her mother su�er from migraines and sclerosis. Her father works in the local dairy industry and her mother operates a taco stand in Wilder. “Overall, always seeing her su�er when I was younger always hurt me,” Rueda said of her mother. “I wanted to help her in any way I could.”
Olivia Weitz is the Canyon County and city of Caldwell reporter. She can be reached at 465-8107 or oweitz@idahopress.com. Follow @oliviaweitz1. Yuni Rueda Feb 11, 2017
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DACA recipient hopes for the best
DATE: September 12, 2017
KEVIN TREVELLYAN PUBLICATION: Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID) SECTION: Daily Email, News, Today's Headlines Editor's note: Jorge is not the real name of the DACA recipient featured in this article. The Post Register has given the source anonymity. Jorge still has faith. The 28yearold Mexican immigrant was brought into the country illegally before he turned 2. As documented in a Post Register article in April, Jorge grew up fearful of deportation until he came out of the shadows in 2012 after being granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. His future in the United States is once again uncertain since President Donald Trump announced last week he was ending the executive order with a sixmonth delay. Now it's up to Congress to craft a legislative solution for more than 800,000 socalled "dreamers," who are vetted, pay taxes and, in most cases, didn't decide to come to the United States. "I see a strand of hope," Jorge said. "I just wish DACA could stay in place until something is done. They take quite a while to do anything in Congress, so that's my biggest fear. Maybe they can come to a resolution, but how long will it take? Life doesn't stop people need to work and go to school." Jorge heard about the news of DACA's status from an alert through his phone at the salon where he works. He was disappointed, but not surprised. The news had leaked the week prior that Trump would cancel the program before lawsuits from a handful of state attorneys general were filed. The lawsuits were threatened in July, and that's when Jorge predicted Trump's recent announcement. Jorge's concern surrounding DACA's future, however, has existed since Trump's conflicted rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign. He promised at times to cancel the executive order yet "deal with DACA with heart." DACA allowed Jorge to attend cosmetology school, which he recently finished, and get a hairstyling job he passionately enjoys. With the program potentially on its last legs, Jorge is reminded of feelings he had as an undocumented man. "It's hard. It's hard to go back to thinking about living without it," he said. "It's definitely been a rollercoaster of emotions getting scared, then calming down after the election, then it coming back up. If nothing happens with Congress, there's nothing else for us." Traditionally, DACA has been granted for twoyear periods, at which point a recipient can apply for renewal. President Barack Obama intended for the program to be a stopgap measure while Congress worked on a permanent replacement. Recipients whose DACA expires before March will be eligible to renew their work permits, but Jorge's status expires in December 2018. If Congress doesn't pass a replacement, he will either have to live here undocumented once again, or return to Mexico: a place he left before age 2 and has no memory of. "It's a little scary," Jorge said. Still, he is "hugely optimistic," despite a Congress that has hit several roadblocks this session. Trump's announcement could encourage Congress to make dreamers a priority and provide a permanent path to citizenship. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act that would have addressed people such as Jorge was introduced in Congress in 2001, and has subsequently failed several times over the years. But there's greater public awareness of dreamers in 2017, and Jorge thinks that will make the difference in getting legislation passed. "Before DACA, dreamers had never been proven. Politicians were scared to do something like this. Seeing how much all these DACA people, including myself, have wanted to be here and how much we've given this country, hopefully it will make them more prone to approving something," Jorge said. "And I'm optimistic that hopefully this is such a hot and urgent subject that it'll actually get done sooner than later. But in the back of my head I'm still like, prepare yourself." http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=166DC9EA0B6D0898&p_docnum=1&s_dlid=DL0118010421553009570&s_ecproduct=SB…
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Before DACA was created, Jorge planned to move to Puerto Vallarta and work in the tourism industry, where his ability to speak English and Spanish would make him a valuable employee. That plan remains in the back of his mind, but Jorge's going to continue to work, shore himself financially and see what happens come March. He may stick around for a bit if no replacement comes. But Jorge doesn't want to hide forever. "I don't foresee myself being in the U.S. undocumented for the rest of my life," he said. "I've thrown out the idea of staying until the next election and seeing what happens. I'm open to that, but I just don't know where my head will be in six months." If Jorge does stay undocumented in the U.S., the federal government will have his information. It's a test of faith Jorge made five years ago, and he hopes it won't come back to haunt him. "I knew that could come into play by giving them all my info. It's a little scary to think about, but if they took it that far, I don't know if I'd want to be in this country," he said. "A lot of people need to realize we're your neighbor, your friend, your coworker or employee, and we don't know any other home. So open your mind and heart. We're all human and we just want to do the right thing and abide by the rules of this country."
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