David Richardson to dine with ‘Dreamers’

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State Rep. David Richardson will join immigrant youth and their parents this evening (Sunday) at a special dinner.

The Miami Beach Democrat will discuss how the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will affect them and their families.

He says he will commit to pushing policies locally and nationally that protect them from deportation.

“Hardline anti-immigrant forces, led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, forced the hand of President Donald Trump to kill off the popular and successful program by March 2018,” a press release said.

The dinner is tonight (Sunday, Oct. 29) at 5:30 p.m. at David’s Cafe, 919 Alton Rd., Miami Beach.

Here’s the rest of the release:

The DACA program is an unqualified success, providing new opportunities and futures for nearly 800,000 Dreamers who live, study, and work in America, including 102,000 who are DACA-eligible in Florida.

Each DACA recipient has come forward, passed a background check and been granted permission to live and work legally in America.

As a result, many have been able to fulfill their dreams of attending and completing college; most are working legally, paying taxes and providing for their families; and all are finding ways to contribute to the country they call home without fear of deportation.

The “Dreamer Dinners” initiative invites Members of Congress and local elected officials to join an immigrant family for a meal to discuss how federal immigration actions impact children, families, and communities.

This campaign is a spinoff of the “DAPA Dinners Campaign” – read more about that initiative here

For more information on the Dreamer Dinners campaign, please contact Nicky Vogt at [email protected]

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2 comments

  • AnnaMolina

    October 29, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    emocrats, MSM, every faculty member at any university in the country fighting to the death for illegal aliens? they put a warm and fuzzy name on it “Dreamers.” and no one seem to wonder why? future voters? can you imagine the Democrats ever being this interested or motivated in issues involving citizens! There is an estimated 800,000 DACA recipients in the US. That is 800,000 jobs American Citizens don’t have or will be in competition for.

    The MSM and Democrats would have us believe that all 800 thousand are not taking jobs Americans want (we’ve heard that lie for many years now.) This is another falsehood told to the American people. Democrats have actually changed the language. It’s not illegal alien its “Immigrant.” (like the lie there just ‘Kids”) there not all picking strawberries they take great Jobs. Good enough jobs to buy homes put their kids through college.Why must the citizens of our country have competition for jobs, education in their own country from foreign nationals? Now Democrats and illegal alien activists admit DACA recipients have great jobs,are buying homes, paying taxes.

    The GOAL, motivation (Democrats just haven’t figured this out yet) is for the American citizens to be employed, sending their kids to college, buying homes and paying taxes. It’s not the responsibility of the citizens of this country to support, educate citizens from other country’s.Deportation will save jobs and decrease the costs of illegal aliens.

    “Some” of the costs associated with illegal immigration……Dollars and Blood.

    *The cost of educating illegal aliens children is staggering. From K-12 it costs taxpayers $122,000 for EACH illegal alien student.

    *Now city, and state officials are appropriating millions of taxpayer dollars for legal fees to to file law suits and in defense of illegal aliens being deported.

    *2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.

    *30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons. At $21,000 per year expense per inmate in Federal Prison—U do the math.

    *$3Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens, I repeat 3 MILLION a DAY to process Illegals in the Criminal justice system.

    *$2.2Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as SNAP (food stamps),WIC, & free school lunches.

    There is also an incredible public safety issues.

    http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp
    http://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/
    http://www.wnd.com/…/big-list-of-86-horrific-illegal…/

    • Monica

      October 30, 2017 at 12:05 am

      With all due respect check your sources… primary sources are a good start. Try not using biased sources such as the one your pasting on this post 👌🏼

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