Thread: DREAMER ACTIVISTS TO REPUBLICANS: 'BRING IT ON'

Illegal immigration activism is their full time job, who is paying their bills? Government grants and the Progressive left.

DREAMER ACTIVISTS TO REPUBLICANS: 'BRING IT ON'




by CHARLIE SPIERING 4 Dec 2014 POST A COMMENT

Immigration reform activists met with Obama administration officials at the White House today, as House Republicans voted to on a House bill to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty.

Following the meeting, the activists challenged Republicans for trying to roll back President Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, as well as his recent decision to offer amnesty to at least 5 million illegal immigrants.

“Bring it on. We are ready. We are not afraid to take you on. We have won this victory,” said Lorella Praeli, the Director of Advocacy and Policy of “United We Dream,” a group representing children of illegal immigrants.

The group of activists defended the president outside the White House, after meeting with Cecilia Muñoz, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

“When Republicans and other members of Congress make this personal, when they try to say this about the president and executive overreach and the Constitution but it is really an attack on our communities, then it becomes a real fight for us,” Praeli asserted.

Praeli admitted that Obama’s order was a “bittersweet moment” because it was only temporary and didn’t apply to the entire community of illegal immigrants.

When questioned by reporters about temporary nature of Obama’s order, Praeli said she was “pretty confident” that the next president would leave Obama’s executive action in place after he left office.

She also pointed out that it was more important than ever to combat Republicans who opposed Obama's executive order.
“We will make sure we will expose anyone who stands in the way of that safety for the community,” she said.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ns-Bring-It-On

Our History


United We Dream began in the mid-2000s, when key national advocacy groups, led by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), developed an informal coalition of organizers and advocates to promote equal access to educational opportunities for immigrant youth. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act brought this group together. The DREAM Act would provide a path to citizenship for immigrant youth brought to the U.S. as children.


In 2005, after years of student organizing for access to higher education and citizenship for immigrant youth, immigrant student groups started to emerge in states across the country. The New York State Youth Leadership Council, the Student Immigrant Movement in Massachusetts, the University Leadership Initiative in Austin, TX, and the California Dream Network, were the undocumented student organizations that started building a strong momentum for immigrant youth organizing in those states.


When the DREAM Act failed to get sixty votes in 2007, these networks and groups had to re-evaluate what direction to take. A group of DREAMers, organizers, and advocates came together to reflect on the DREAM Act campaign and talk about building a movement and organization that would not hinge on votes in Congress, but that was rooted in a commitment to build an immigrant youth movement that would work to not only pass the DREAM Act, but reshape and influence the broader movement for immigrant rights. That group determined that we needed to create a powerful organizing network that had its own resources, could set its own priorities, and produce results.


In December 2008, the groups of leaders convened a coalition meeting in Washington, D.C. with the help of NILC. The participants, a dynamic and overwhelmingly diverse group of immigrant youth leaders, met to discuss future advocacy efforts to ensure that immigrant youth obtain access to legal status and higher education. There was a shared vision by key youth leadership that a national structure should be created that was led by young people whose lives are directly impacted by unjust immigration laws and United We Dream was formed. NILC committed to serve as fiscal sponsor and help the incubation of UWD.


United We Dream held its first convening in Minnesota in 2009, the first UWD National Congress with just 40 participants. Members of the UWD network then met in Lexington, KY in 2010, in Memphis, TN in 2011, and in Kansas City, MO in 2012, with 600 DREAMers and allies. Today, UWD is the largest immigrant youth-led network in the nation, composed of 55 affiliates in 26 states.


United We Dream, which has fought for access to higher education and legal status for undocumented immigrant youth, expanded its platform for change in 2013 and beyond to include the families and communities of DREAMers, fighting for a roadmap to citizenship for 11 million undocumented Americans and fair treatment for all.


When House Republicans stalled on immigration reform in 2013, United We Dream turned its attention to President Obama. More than 500 Dreamers came together in Phoenix, AZ in February 2014 for United We Dream’s Congress, and called on the President to provide deportation relief to millions in the community, including parents of Dreamers, and thus the We Can’t Wait campaign was created. See UWD’s We Can’t Wait campaign in action.


Youth organizing for access to deportation relief and higher education has provided a stepping stone for immigrant youth to become politically active, to gain exposure to different streams of social justice work, and to share responsibility for building a movement based on principles of social inclusion and justice.

http://unitedwedream.org/about/history/

NILC's work is supported by foundation grants as well as publications and training revenue, attorney fees, and donations from individuals.


We are grateful to the following foundations who make our work possible for through their generous support:

Blue Shield of California Foundation

California Community Foundation

The California Endowment
The California Wellness Foundation
David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Equal Justice Works

Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Ford Foundation
Four Freedoms Fund
Hagedorn Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Unbound Philanthropy
State Bar of California Legal Services Trust Fund Program

For more information on how you can support NILC's work, visit our donation page.

Founded in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center is the only national legal advocacy organization in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants and their families. We envision a U.S. society in which all people — regardless of their race, gender, immigration or economic status — are treated equally, fairly, and humanely, have equal access to justice, education, government resources and economic opportunities, and are able to achieve their full potential as human beings. Policymakers, community organizers, legal advocates, and the media recognize National Immigration Law Center staff as experts on a wide range of issues that affect the lives of immigrants in the U.S., and frequently call upon us to explain the real-life impact of immigration-related laws and policies.

http://www.nilc.org/whoweare.html

The United We Dream Network is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are deductible to the extent permitted by law.

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraisin...er-2?amount=20

The National Immigration Law Center is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

https://org.salsalabs.com/o/371/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=7138

Folks, the US income tax has been used for over a century to send jobs out of our country, which was the original purpose of it in 1913, to make up for the loss tariff revenue when Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Act to reduce tariffs on imported goods.

The United States Revenue Act of 1913 also known as the Tariff Act, Underwood Tariff, Underwood Act, Underwood Tariff Act, or Underwood-Simmons Act (ch. 16, 38 Stat. 114, October 3, 1913), re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. It was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on October 3, 1913, and was sponsored by Alabama Representative Oscar Underwood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1913

To continue to support a Socialist tax, designed and implemented by the worst of America in 1913 and continued to this day by the same reptiles who think it's "fair" that foreign persons violating US Immigration, US Civil Rights and US Labor Laws operating through 501 C 3 tax exempt phony charities violating every word and meaning of the 501 C 3 status, funded by other phony 501 C 3 charities whose massive contributions are tax deductible while violating every word and meaning of the 501 C 3 status, which specifically excludes activities that impact public policy or influence legislation, while members and supporters of ALIPAC and NumbersUSA and every other lobbying group that is formed to fight the anti-American anti-USA efforts of these phony charities can not deduct our contributions, needs their heads examined.

Wake Up, find a new angle to assist in this fight against illegal immigration and support the FairTax which does more to stop illegal immigration than any single piece of proposed legislation, because the FairTax stops this unfair nonsense of 501 C 3 charities operating as political lobbying groups, stops the tax credit welfare to illegal aliens, and gives American workers the advantage of a Rebate to pay the tax on household spending up to the poverty line whereas illegal aliens are ineligible for the Rebate.

So if you're tired of being outspent by these outfits, support the FairTax legislation, HR 25 in the US House of Representatives and S 122 in the US Senate.

www.fairtax.org

It's time to BRING IT ON!

Great post Judy.