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Families Separated by Immigration Laws Meet at U.S.-Mexico Border Wall

HeadlineDec 12, 2017

And at the U.S.-Mexico border, families gathered at the wall separating Sunland Park, New Mexico, from Ciudad Juárez on Sunday, calling for an end to President Trump’s immigration crackdown and for the preservation of DACA—or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—which allows some young undocumented immigrants to live and work in the United States. President Trump has said he’ll end DACA in March unless Congress acts. At the border wall, dozens of family members held hands and shared hugs through metal bars, many of them weeping. This is activist Paola Rodriguez.

Paola Rodriguez: “I don’t want the government attacking us, our parents, because they were the DREAMers, or the original DREAMers, and they did an act of love upon bringing us, without knowing what could happen when leaving their family behind. They came, gathered a lot of strength, and now it’s my turn to fight for them.”

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