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Daca has been critical in my upward path to being a law professor. i see defining american as being able to question the very terms by which me and people like me are rendered illegal. i call on immigrant communities, both those who fit the dreamer narrative and those who dont, to come together and chart a new course forward. >> i feel like there will be a disconnect when people hear these daca recipients because theyre just americans. >> i met joel a few years ago here in new york. he went to t...

Daca is completely constitutional, as you mentioned earlier, the legal precedent for this has been used by every administration since eisenhower, republican and democratic presidents have used this. and president trump is about to place 800,000 young immigrants like jonathan, like jin, like karla, like julieta, in harms way. its completely cruel and inhumane and going to call on all of us every second of society to stand up with immigrant youth and say, no, they are americans, they are part of u...

Jose antonio vargas. and maria, and chris president of vote america now. thank you all for being here. jose, i want to start with you first because this the idea of doing this hour started with a text that you sent me. >> yes. >> where we were texting back and forth, which even though i knew impiricily, the shock of doing it so suddenly when the 800,000 people gave their information to the government, they know where to find them, when it first donned on you this could happen, what were your tho...

I was born in mexico. when i was 2 years old. my mom decided to move to the u.s. along with me and my older sister. daca has allowed me to continue to pursue my education and for my family to be able to afford to send me to college. daca has allowed me to contribute to my familys income and allowed me to travel outside my hometown without the fear of being deported. i define american as someone who values what this nation was founded on and works to improve not only themselves but the country ad...

Stories of all those people and the fact that the stories, the real personal stories are getting lost in just a toxic politics of this. again, i think its important to remember this, the government said to them come, give us your phone numbers, give us your addresses, give us -- pay us, i dont know if people know this, daca recipients have to pay about $500 to the government so that the government doesnt deport them for two years. they have to pay that again when they renew it. if you think abou...

>> and immigration in general, you know, jonathan, is multicultural, right? its from -- we get immigrants from all over the world. and the undocumented are no different. we do have some stats, i believe these might be from pugh poll. 92.6% recipients of daca are latino, but 3.5% are asian, pacific islander and 1.1% are black. you, your farmmily originally ce from panama. tell us your story. >> thank you for the invitation. i think for me personally and also us at undocublack is also immigration ...

Dream. thank you all for being here. im really excited to talk to you guys because one of the things we wanted to do, and ill start with you, jen, is to take people out of the mindset that the issue of daca is just about mexican migrants. because i think a lot of people have this stereotype that every single daca recipient came to the united states from mexico and that immigration is literally just a mexican and american problem. but its much bigger than that. tell us your story. >> right. so my...

Position, the government has all the information about these young people. all of these, these daca, the government knows everything about them. >> right. >> so when youre saying fwheed to be understanding and clear about whos here, these are all young people who have not committed any crimes who are in school or in the army. so im not sure like how much more documentation, you want to take their blood? >> well, also, look, i mean, by metric samples -- >> they do -- >> let me ask you this questi...

And joy knows and maria knows, in this country laws dont always equal justice. and i think to the young people watching especially if you have daca, you know that your life is more than pieces of papers. and you know that your life is more than laws that people dont even understand, even the president, right? i think its really, really important that we remind ourselves, look, the president still has not made up his mind. we dont know what hes going to say, right? >> correct. >> maria, im so hap...

Done. you want biometrics? you want also blood drawn? >> so heres also -- i have a very strong point i think we need to do. we need to encourage citizenship in america. >> but isnt that what daca is doing? >> no, no, its not. the daca by no means is encouraging citizenship. and i choose my words very carefully when i say this. and i really want to be -- i dont want to rip my words apart but reality is this, lets take the welfare for an example -- not that im comparing the two, but for an example...