An influencer calls for a day without immigrants in the United States

An influencer calls for a day without immigrants in the United States

“80,000 immigrants have joined the Facebook group to help organize ‘A Day Without Immigrants’. Hundreds of thousands have pledged not to work on Valentine’s Day. Marches are also being planned across the country. All of this in 10 days…”, says Eduardo Espina, 23, in his last tweet.

“No work, no school, no spending, it’s time for immigration reform!”affirms the call in English and Spanish launched by this young man, with a Uruguayan father and a Mexican mother, who has lived in Texas since he was a child.

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The initiative has had the support of congressmen such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezof Puerto Rican origin, and Ilhan Omarformer Somali refugee and Muslim.

“To create change, the first step is to create awareness. So, my people, we continue to fight for immigration reform with everything. Yes, you can,” says the influencer on TikTok, who has called demonstrations in several cities in the United States and He promises to attend the planned protest on Monday morning in front of the White House in Washington.

The government of the president Joe Biden He has tried to promote immigration reform and proposed a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in a country that has not had a law of this type for 35 years, but his main initiatives have stalled.

In March, the lower house of Congress voted in favor of a bill that opens the way to regularize people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and some 600,000 young people under the Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals, (DACA for its acronym in English), which temporarily protects from deportation undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children, known as dreamers (dreamers).

TPS is a temporary, renewable program that prevents deportation and provides access to a work permit for foreign nationals who cannot safely return to their country due to natural disasters, armed conflict, or other extraordinary conditions.

But none of these texts were voted on in the Senate.

Source: Ambito

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