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August 16, 2017

27 Arrested at White House Sit-In Protest in Support of DACA
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In Washington, D.C., 27 activists were arrested Tuesday at a sit-in
protest outside the White House, where they called on the Trump
administration not to end DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals. The policy, which was first implemented five years ago, grants
legal protection for some young immigrants to live and work in the
United States. Among those arrested were Maryland gubernatorial
candidate and former NAACP chair Ben Jealous and Illinois Democratic
Congressmember Luis Gutiérrez. Hundreds more rallied for DACA in cities
around the U.S. This is Nawshin Islam with Desis Rising Up and Moving,
who came out publicly as undocumented for the first time at a protest
Tuesday outside Trump Tower in New York.

Nawshin Islam: "It's because of DACA I've gotten the chance to be human
and work towards the kind of potential that I know I have, the kind of
potential everyone here today has. Unfortunately, many of you may have
heard that Texas Attorney General Paxton is demanding the cancellation
of DACA by September 5th, or else he will file a lawsuit against DACA.
If the lawsuit is filed, then it is up to Trump to defend DACA. But
Trump won't defend us unless we unite and force him to do so."



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