URGENT: Students Without Status: Urge Congress to Support Rights of Undocumented Immigrant Students

Join the Alliance for Excellent Education and UnidosUS for a brief call-to-action webinar urging Congress to support the rights of undocumented immigrant students. Join us to learn what’s happening on Capitol Hill, and how you can help provide undocumented students the protection the need and deserve.

URGENT: Students Without Status: Urge Congress to Support Rights of Undocumented Immigrant Students

DACA Webinar Congressional Contacts

Congressman Don Bacon (R-NE-02)

Represents the second district of Nebraska, including Omaha
E-mail: https://bacon.house.gov/contact/email
Twitter: @RepDonBacon
Facebook: facebook.com/RepDonBacon

Congressman Peter King (R-NY-02)

Represents the second district of New York, including portions of Nassau and Suffolk counties
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitter: @RepPeterKing
Facebook: facebook.com/reppeteking

Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX-06)

Represents the sixth district of Texas, including Fort Worth
E-mail: Contact from https://joebarton.house.gov/contact/
Twitter: @RepJoeBarton
Facebook: facebook.com/RepJoeBarton

Congressman Scott Taylor (R-VA-02)

Represents the second district of Virginia, including Virginia Beach
E-mail: Contact from https://taylor.house.gov/contact/email
Twitter: @RepScottTaylor
Facebook: facebook.com/RepScottTaylor

Congressman Dan Newhouse (R-WA-04)

Represents the fourth district of Washington, including Yakima and Okanogan and Douglas Counties
E-mail: Contact from https://newhouse.house.gov/contact/email
Twitter: @RepNewhouse
Facebook: facebook.com/RepNewhouse

Congressman Tom Rooney (R-FL-17)

Represents the seventeenth district of Florida, including Okeechobee and Seebring
E-mail: Contact from https://rooney.house.gov/contact
Twitter: @TomRooney
Facebook: facebook.com/reptomrooney

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28)

Represents the twenty-eighth district of Texas, including the Rio Grande and suburbs of San Antonio
E-mail: Contact from https://cuellar.house.gov/contact/sendmeanemail.htm
Twitter: @RepCuellar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/repcuellar

Panelists

Carlos A. Guevara, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation, UnidosUS

Lindsay Dworkin, Director of Policy Development and State Government Relations, Alliance for Excellent Education

On June 7, 2018 the Alliance for Excellent Education and UnidosUS held a brief call-to-action webinar urging Congress to support the rights of undocumented immigrant students.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, has been in peril since last fall when President Trump decided to cancel it. Recent court decisions have given some hope to the thousands of young people—also known as “Dreamers”—protected from deportation under DACA, but a legislative solution is required to give them the certainty they deserve.

Two Republican Congressmen, Carlos Curbelo of Florida and Jeff Denham of California, are leading an effort to force the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on solutions for DACA immigration and border security through a procedural move called a “discharge petition” that is rarely used. Essentially, if Curbelo and Denham can gather the signatures of 218 Representatives, they can force a vote on the House floor.

Three additional signatures (two Republicans, one Democrat) are required to force a vote to save DACA, and time is running out.

View the webinar to learn what’s happening on Capitol Hill, and how you can help provide undocumented students the protection the need and deserve.

Please direct questions concerning the webinar to [email protected]. If you are unable to watch the webinar live, an archived version will be available at https://all4ed.org/webinars 1–2 business days after the event airs.

The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) is a Washington, DC–based national policy, practice, and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, particularly those underperforming and those traditionally underserved, graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship.

https://all4ed.org

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Photo Courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.