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Statement

On 11th Anniversary of DACA, America’s Moms Say Permanent Protections for Dreamers Are Long Overdue

June 15, 2023
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Donna Norton, Executive Vice President of MomsRising and MamásConPoder, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the 11th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:

“DACA has made our country stronger. DACA recipients are valued members of our communities and our workforce, and major contributors to our health care system and our economy. They deserve the chance to live, learn, and work in the only country most have ever called home, without fear of having their lives up-ended through deportation.

“Hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients have been forced to live in fear and limbo for too long. Many live in terror that their families will be torn apart. It’s time to recognize that ending DACA would create an economic and humanitarian catastrophe in our country and time to end the heartless, harmful legal and political attacks on this program.

“Congress must finally do what the overwhelming majority of voters want and give Dreamers permanent protections. That’s what America’s moms want and what the country needs.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to improve family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.