A lot of undocumented immigrants don't support selling out their own as you do.
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DREAMers Lobby Against a Trump Border Wall Deal—Even One That Would Save Them
Recipients of DACA are encouraging lawmakers to reject the main demand the president has made in exchange for their legal protections.
Sam Stein
09.05.17 10:55 PM ET
President
Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to
phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy opened the door for legislative deal making. And no proposed trade has been more widely discussed than one in which Trump gets funding for his
beloved border wall in exchange for permanent legal protections for the so-called DREAMers.
There are just two major hitches: Democrats aren’t biting and, more significantly, neither are DACA recipients.
Those recipients, along with immigration reform advocates, have been lobbying lawmakers to reject any deal that would result in a border wall, Capitol Hill aides and activists have told The Daily Beast.
The DREAMers have done so despite the fact that such an arrangement would directly ensure that their legal status was no longer in limbo after Trump announced he would scrap the program that President Barack Obama
began via executive action in 2012. And it’s not just in the halls of Congress where they’re stressing that point.
“I’m not going to step on top of my community to get ahead,” said Jose Aguiluz, a D.C. native who was brought by his family from Honduras when he was 15 years old and who received his DACA status in 2012.
Aguiluz, a nurse, was outside the White House on Tuesday to protest Trump’s decision. “By me trying to say, ‘Oh, let’s make a deal with the wall,’ it is like I’m stepping up on my community, my parents, uncles, and grandparents, that I’m putting them down so that I can get ahead,” he said. “That’s unfair and it’s not American.”
Nearby stood Carlos Arellano, who was brought to the United States by his parents from Mexico when he was 15 and received DACA protection at age 26.
“DACA changed my life completely,” he said, explaining how the program allowed him to pursue a nursing degree.
A stethoscope rested on Arellano’s shoulders and a pained look showed on his face. He was nine months away from getting that degree but wouldn’t take a deal that could ensure its usage if that deal involved funding a border wall.
“DACA shouldn’t be used as a political football,” he said. “They are playing with the future of young, very bright immigrants like myself.”
The refusal of DACA recipients to sign off on a border-wall exchange raises the stakes around a dramatic, fast-moving attempt to piece together narrowly tailored immigration reform.
