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Consequence of losing our beautiful son joaquin. joaquin loved to play basketball. he was a great writer, like you said. and he mentioned that sometimes when he played basketball, he was feeling bad calls from the referees. he was always looking for a fair game. then when i saw what happened in parkland and i got more involved with the news and the reality behind that episode and everyday gun violence, without the referees, the referees in d.c., the ones who are supposed to give us a fair game, the ones who are supposed to make the right calls are ignoring us. so, that's how we started with ch...

Advocates to literally face the consequences of their policies. they call those 3,000 empty seats the lost class. this advocacy group, change the ref, was founded by manuel and patricia oliver. in 20102018 their son joaquin was killed at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. joaquin was 17 years old. he was a great writer, an athlete, loved music. his father said today that he was not scared to pull off this sort of unbelievable piece of advocacy and honestly centrifuge. he said, quote, we need to show we're brave and we're not afraid of these guys. we've already felt the ...

This is about my son joaquin. my wife patricia was the one that received joaquin's diploma when he was supposed to be graduating from high school, so i know how that feels. and i'm glad that i can do this. i'm glad that we can find things that empower us. and maybe -- maybe -- they are given power to many parents that don't know how to react. they don't know how to do things. they maybe haven't found themselves doing something similar. they're more than invited. we need to keep on being parents, and no one -- no one -- will stop that from happening. >> manuel oliver. the cofounder of the gun r...

What we did. i love it. thank you. >> well, tell me about change the ref and tell me about how you came up with this idea. >> well, change the ref is a consequence of losing our beautiful son joaquin. joaquin loved to play basketball. he was a great writer, like you said. and he mentioned that sometimes when he played basketball, he was feeling bad calls from the referees. he was always looking for a fair game. then when i saw what happened in parkland and i got more involved with the news and the reality behind that episode and everyday gun violence, without the referees, the referees in d.c....

For his rare disease is not available where he's from, where they're from. his mother says about her son, quote, if he has to move to brazil, that's it. meaning he'll die. she has been relying on the same program, medical deferred action, to keep her son in treatment, to manage her son's condition, to keep him alive. well, last week samuel's mother got an unexpected letter from u.s. citizenship and immigration services telling her that that's all over now. the agency will no longer renew any applications to stay here under the medical deferred action program. even if your child will die withou...