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May 18, 2010

3 Undocumented Immigrants Risk Deportation in Protest for DREAM Act
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In other Arizona news, four students were arrested Monday after holding
a sit-in at the Tucson offices of Republican Senator John Mc Cain. The
protesters called on Mc Cain to back the DREAM Act, which would grant
permanent citizenship to undocumented workers’ children if they
completed two years of college, trade school or military service. Three
of the protesters are undocumented immigrants and now face deportation.
It was the first time students have risked deportation to back
immigration reform legislation.

Tania Unzueta: "We expect that within seventy-two hours Immigration and
Customs Enforcement will come and detain them, the three who are
undocumented. And after that, they go into removal proceedings. We have
been preparing for this, and so we have legal counsel. And so, we’re
going to fight each one of their cases legally. But at the same time as
they’re going through those proceedings, the idea is that, on the
outside, people who are feeling that anger and that frustration and the
energy, right, which is why we were doing this action, is that they’re
going to be mobilizing, too, and putting pressure on legislators in
order to pass the DREAM Act."



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