On Friday, July 16th, a Texas Federal Judge ruled to partially end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The ruling immediately put a stop to accepting new applicants into the program. Current DACA recipients are still able to continue with their renewals as of now.

The Biden-Harris administration announced that it would appeal the decision. It is up to this administration and Congress to not only fight for DACA, but also go further to ensure more permanent solutions. It is up to all of us to demand it.

The need for solutions goes beyond DACA recipients. For many years, TPS holders, asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented communities have faced criminalization, exploitation, and discrimination while also navigating unjust immigration laws and processes. Almost 600,000 people have been deported or expelled since January. We are long overdue for laws and policies like a mass amnesty and immigration reform; such proposals could provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million. A pathway to citizenship is a clear next move, and it is going to take powerful organizing to make this happen.

We recognize that pressure on legislators and the administration is needed, yet we also honor the many routes that lead to collective liberation beyond the electoral sphere. Even as we demand a pathway to citizenship, we hold a vision towards a system that has ongoing routes for legal presence; protection for new migrants; an end to all detention, deportation, and border militarization; and an end to violent and destructive US intervention in other countries.

As an organization committed to the worth and dignity of all humans, this ruling is fuel for our continued movement-building education and network building. Borderlinks uplifts the calls to action that folks around the country have put forth in response to this ruling as well as their ongoing work.

To demand Biden and your representatives in Congress take action and get regular updates from United We Dream, text “Pathway” to 877-877.

Here are some ways you can join efforts and connect to resources:

Familia:Trans Queer Liberation Movement

Detention Watch Network

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