Tag: politics

• On Citizenship: A Takeaway from the DACA Decision

  

  This past week, the nation tuned into Attorney Jeff Sessions’ announcement on the termination of DACA. News outlets were then eager to interview DACA recipients to share the stories of these youth. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is a program. It did not offer a pathway to citizenship or permanent residency. When the program started in…

  Claudia Rojas

  September 9, 2017

  Compositions

  American Dream, Citizenship, immigration, immigration reform, politics

• 1,000 miles: step 45

  “Maybe my finger has never pulled the trigger of White supremist crime and violence Still, I will forever be as guilty as my silence when the color of my skin grants me privilege for those sins, the crime I do not stand against is as good as mine…” –Andrea Gibson, “Bullets and Windchimes” … I…

  Claudia Rojas

  October 10, 2013

  1,000 miles

  expectations, immigration reform, poetry, politics, social change

• 1,000 miles: step 29

  Yesterday, though I was over an hour early to the immigration rally, by the time 3:00 came around, I was nowhere near the front of the stage. In fact, I was moving towards the front a dos pasos, cada dos horas (two steps, every two hours, as that merry man next to me would say).…

  Claudia Rojas

  April 11, 2013

  1,000 miles

  expectations, immigration reform, politics, social change