United We Dream – the largest network of immigrant youth – has filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court with 27 stories representing DACA recipients across the country. Learn more about these courageous young people below.
“At the end of the day, before you’re a judge, a pastor, a soccer player. Before you’re an immigrant — you’re a human being. You’re a human first.”
“When we got DACA, we got wings.”
“I belong here. I get the freedom to walk down the street and own my own narrative.”
“Being a teacher means working long hours — it also means making kids feel like they belong.”
“Where somebody sees a lack of something, you can build something new. I still want to live here more than anything.”
For undocumented youth and our loved ones — Home is Here.
Ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and subjecting immigrants to deportation will have a devastating impact on entire communities and the moral fabric of our nation.
For the last seven years, nearly 800,000 people have thrived because of DACA and the impact of the program extends to their families and entire communities.
The program is an important milestone in the long struggle of self-determination and safety of immigrant communities. It was won after immigrants took great risks to expose themselves and share their stories for nearly a decade.
United We Dream’s amicus brief will showcase the stories of 27 DACA recipients, demonstrating that:
50 organizations are signatories to this brief and they can be found below. We are immigrants. Our home is here.
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice
Alliance San Diego
Arkansas United Community Coalition
Arizona Dream Act Coalition
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles
Asian Law Alliance
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFLCIO
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
CASA
CARECEN SF
Caring Across Generations
Center for American Progress
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Connecticut Students for a Dream
Fair Immigration Reform Movement
FWD.us
HOLA Ohio
ImmSchools
Junta for Progressive Action, Inc.
Latin America Working Group
Make the Road Pennsylvania
Michigan United
Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project
Migrant Justice
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Equality Action Team
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium
National Partnership for New Americans
Next Up
Next100
One America
Opening Doors International Services
Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition
Project South
Promise Arizona
UFW Foundation
United Farm Workers of America
UPLIFT
The Resurrection Project
The Revolutionary Love Project
The Rhode Island Bible Society
The Rhode Island State Council of Churches
Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network
South Asian Americans Leading Together
South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
US Fund for UNICEF
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
