Tag: DACA

IDEAS, Improving Dreamers Equity, Access & Success, is a club started last spring with the intention of becoming a support group for undocumented students on campus as well as raising awareness to the struggles they face in their daily lives. 

Students gathered in front of The Spot dining hall Wednesday morning to celebrate and stand in solidarity for the eighth annual national “I Stand With Immigrants Day of Action.” 

VICE’s short documentary is a window into Rodriguez’s life story. He was born in Mexico and immigrated to California at age 6 with his mom and two sisters. He grew up in Visalia, about 45 minutes from Fresno in the Central Valley. 

On June 18 the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. 

A sophomore biology major and resident assistant at the University of La Verne, Emely Ortega-Martinez appears to be like any other college student – young, athletic, studious and friendly. But she is also undocumented and one of the 700,000 DACA recipients in the United States.

Denea Joseph, an undocumented black woman, shared her experiences living in the U.S. as a DACA recipient on Monday in the Campus Center Ballroom.