Next week, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of DACA and the resilience of our movement!
DACA exists because immigrant youth refused to take no for an answer: we organized, we persisted, and we made real what everyone called impossible. Together, we protected our community and made this country stronger.
However, as we celebrate these last 14 years of resilience, DACA is currently being dismantled through a thousand calculated cuts and largely behind the scenes. United We Dream is organizing every day to stop these attacks and secure a pathway to citizenship. Please chip in $14 or more to support this ongoing work.
DACA recipients were promised protection from deportation. Instead, under this administration, our coworkers, friends, and classmates are being detained and cruelly separated from their families as part of an intentional mass delegalization and mass deportation agenda that also targets TPS, refugee, and asylum protection.
The program faces escalating attacks on every front. Active litigation could soon strip DACA recipients in Texas of their right to work.¹ Immigration and federal agents are detaining and deporting DACA recipients despite their valid DACA protections.² And renewals that once took just weeks can now stretch past six months,³ pushing people out of status and out of work. This is a five-alarm fire.
Despite it all, this anniversary is a reminder that we power each other. We refuse to stay silent in the face of these rising threats against our safety, rights, and futures. We keep our communities safe.
When we come together, we're powerful. United We Dream is building a future where everyone's needs are met — where we drive the change and deliver a pathway to citizenship. We power our country, and we'll continue to build the world we hope for.
Make no mistake: in all 14 years of DACA, its protections have never been under greater threat. But we refuse to let DACA disappear, and we refuse to watch our community be stripped of status. Will you chip in $14 — one dollar for every year of DACA — to ensure UWD has the resources to continue advocating for DACA and a pathway to citizenship?
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Thank you,
Nico, United We Dream
"Texas DACA recipients on edge awaiting work authorization ruling." CBS News. March 9, 2026.
"'Easily discarded': Processing delays leave DACA recipients jobless and fearing deportation." The Los Angeles Times. May 27, 2026.
"'We're not kids anymore': The DACA generation hits their 30s with an unstable future." NPR. May 19, 2026.
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