"Dreamers" knock doors

[struggle4progress]

By BO ERICKSON
CBS NEWS September 3, 2017, 11:45 PM

... Siblings Angel, 19, and Jennifer Romero, 20, went door-to-door in the pouring Virginia rain Saturday in order to advocate for DACA, the 2012 executive order penned by the Obama Administration that deferred deportation for two years and granted options for higher education and work permits to undocumented young people ...

... the Romeros, who came into the U.S. as toddlers from Mexico, and their canvassing companion, Francisco Lasso, 25, originally from Ecuador, .. all rung doorbells and rapped doors to remind their fellow Virginians to vote in the upcoming elections ...

Jennifer said she wants to join the military -- specifically, the Marines -- and then jumpstart a career as a teacher.

"We are not breaking any rules. We are not doing anything bad," Lasso asserted. "We are just trying to find our voice and make a better life in this country" ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dreamers-find-support-ahead-of-trumps-daca-decision-virginia/

[zentrum]

1. They strengthen America. nt

[RKP5637]

2. K&R!!! n/t

[SusanaMontana41]

3. Trumpf is going to f*ck them over

but first he's going to enjoy watching them twist in the wind.

Sadist.

[sandensea]

4. He's cornered, and is trying to indulge his base.

Whenever they hear 'dreamers', 'DACA', or related terms, they see brown people (forgetting that this impacts many Irish and Eastern Europeans as well).

[SusanaMontana41]

6. All true. AND I think he's a sadist. eom

[beam me up scottie]

5. America is better because of them.

I wish we could do a swap, get rid of the white supremacists and keep the Dreamers.