{"id":3956,"date":"2019-06-27T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:35:14","slug":"daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/daca\/","title":{"rendered":"DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 6, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Yesterday, President Trump cruelly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Now, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as young children are at risk for deportation from the only country they&#8217;ve ever known. This decision is simply unconscionable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">DACA recipients or Dreamers deserve respect and dignity. Here in New York, we have close to 89,000 Dreamers who are students or work as doctors, lawyers, in retail and in many other capacities. They contribute every day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Pursuant to the order, Congress has just six months to devise a comprehensive immigration plan that will protect, not only the DACA recipients, but other undocumented immigrants by granting a path to citizenship. Congress must act &#8212;\u00a0without\u00a0using the Dreamers as a bargaining chip to fund a border wall, stepped-up deportations and cuts to legal immigration &#8212; and pass laws such as the Dream Act or Hope Act.<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\u00a0NCJW New York is thrilled to provide free legal counseling through the Mobile Legal Center of New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) here at Council House on September 18th and October 2nd. The Mobile Legal Center&#8217;s bilingual staff provides free legal assistance on civil issues.\u00a0If you or someone you know needs assistance, please contact our staff social worker at 646-884-9471 to make an appointment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">NCJW NY is also pleased to report that it has enhanced its advocacy work by adding an Immigration and Refugee Initiative that will focus on educating our community on the issues facing immigrants living in NY and the US.\u00a0 We plan to provide hands on opportunities to take action.\u00a0 If you are interested in joining our committee please contact Yael Reisman, Director of Outreach and Engagement, at 646-884-9462.<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div>Sincerely,<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Maria Mostajo<\/div>\n<div>President, NCJW NY<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div>Andrea Salwen Kopel<\/div>\n<div>Executive Director, NCJW NY<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 6, 2017 Yesterday, President Trump cruelly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Now, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as young children are at risk for deportation from the only country they&#8217;ve ever known. This decision is simply unconscionable. DACA recipients or Dreamers deserve respect and dignity&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncjwny.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}