DREAMers Bring the Fight, And Their Parents, to Alabama

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From Colorlines:

For most undocumented immigrants today, Alabama is a place to flee from, not to flock to. Not so for a dozen immigrant youth and a small contingent of parents, all of them undocumented, who’ve arrived in Alabama to tell their stories at an action planned this afternoon in front of the capitol’s statehouse in Montgomery.

“I want other immigrants to know we shouldn’t be afraid. We shouldn’t feel powerless.” said Alma Diaz, a mother who immigrated to the country in 2002 from Mexico without papers. “We are here, doing the right thing for our children and their futures.”

Diaz, who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, will be part of the first “coming out” action involving both undocumented youth and parents in which both will declare their status publicly. In so doing, they risk arrest, and deportation. Such actions are part of the arsenal of tools that undocumented youth have used in the past as a means of declaring their presence and advocating for bills like the DREAM Act.

Full piece here

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