Check out the piece, When We Said Not One More Deportation, We Actually Meant It by Jonathan Perez from Immigrant Youth Coalition: If at first the DREAMer narrative was strategic, then it quickly became annoying. As our movement picked up steam, the word DREAMer became exactly what legislators wanted it to be – an exclusive term for those who are model residents and future “americans.” We began to see how quickly people were ready to throw our parents and “criminals” under the bus. For people who live in low income communities of color the reality was that most youth do not fit into the DREAMer identity. And neither did we. viewpointmag/2014/10/19/dear-comrades-2/#
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:35:42 +0000
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