• Lin-Manuel Miranda’s father, Luis Miranda, along with local and state leaders like Congressman Darren Soto, State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith and State Senator Victor Torres were all in attendance at the event.
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• Maria Rodriguez of the Florida Immigrant Coalition explains what’s at stake for immigrant communities as they look to the Biden administration to enact new policies.
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• Miriam Robles, 24, says she envisions the day she becomes a U.S. citizen and gets to vote the way other people fantasize about their wedding day.
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• Florida DREAMers are celebrating the US Supreme Court’s ruling blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA.
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• The decision is a dramatic victory for immigration advocates and gives a new lease on life for the so-called DREAMers, immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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• Eli García traveled down to Homestead last weekend to turn fear into power. As one of hundreds of thousands of youth using the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), García innately understands the terror of being undocumented. That feeling was heightened as more details emerged about a Trump administration policy that separated about 2,300 undocumented children from their immigrant parents. Trump has since signed an executive order ending this policy, but it’s not clear yet how these children will be reunited with their parents. Although they were afraid, members of the Central Florida undocumented community and the Hope CommUnity Center drove down to a detention facility holding about 1,000 migrant children in Homestead to protest the conditions. Some people …
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• The clock’s ticking on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program was started under the Obama administration to protect the children of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
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