The United States Supreme Court stopped Donald Trump’s plan to end DACA, the program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The perseverance of its beneficiaries goes through an intimate lesson: raising your voice.
The story seems incredible: a group of undocumented youth has beaten the most powerful man in the world, Donald Trump, in the United States Supreme Court. It was a long battle and, in the end, decided by a single vote: the court decided that the US president’s plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program did not had sustenance.
I’ve said it several times, dreamers are my heroes. As a journalist, I have closely followed his struggle of more than a decade in the United States and it never ceases to amaze me all the challenges they have overcome. At the bottom of his strategy is a central idea: lose fear. As undocumented in this country they have always been in danger of deportation. But that has not stopped them from denouncing, participating in protests and bravely confronting the nation’s most powerful politicians. And nothing like what they just accomplished.
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