As Elvira Arellano once said, “We did not come here for the American Dream; we came here because of what the American nightmare did to our countries.”
By Familia Latina Unida
May 20, 2014
This film documents the efforts of Familia Latina Unida and La FuerZa Juventud to get President Obama to use his executive authority to stop the deportations while the Congress remained politically paralyzed.
The dreamers, encouraged by Democratic politicians, had pursued a bill that would have given only them a road to legalization. We were encouraged to say that we were "innocent" while our parents were guilty of breaking the law and so we only should get legalization. Many of the dreamers bought into this saying, "Don't blame us for what our parents did." We were being told we could have "the American Dream" but our parents would have to be deported like criminals."
To reunify the movement, Familia Latina Unida organized the Campaign for American Children and Families. The spearhead for this movement was a youth organization, La FuerZa Juventud, which included both Dreamers and U.S. citizen sons and daughters of undocumented parents. [...]
Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB6a5vJILCE
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