{"id":1568,"date":"2017-06-30T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/dnc-responds-to-attempts-to-end-daca\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:11:00","slug":"dnc-responds-to-attempts-to-end-daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-responds-to-attempts-to-end-daca\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Responds To Attempts To End DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement in response to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/6\/29\/15895458\/trump-daca-dreamers-immigration\">letter<\/a>&nbsp;signed by ten Republican officials asking President Trump to end President Obama&rsquo;s DACA program:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span georgia=\"\">&ldquo;The cruelty of this letter is an affront to our values as Americans. Ending the DACA program will needlessly tear more families apart, shatter communities, drive immigrants into the shadows, and make us all less safe as a result. DACA has helped hundreds of&nbsp; thousands of immigrants who were brought here as children, and who want nothing more than the chance to contribute to the only nation they&rsquo;ve ever called home. Targeting these DREAMers is simply wrong. The Democratic Party believes our diversity is our greatest strength, and we will always fight for hardworking families and a smart, sensible immigration system.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span georgia=\"\">El Director del Comit&eacute; Nacional Dem&oacute;crata, Tom P&eacute;rez, realiz&oacute; las siguientes declaraciones como respuesta a la&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><em><span georgia=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/6\/29\/15895458\/trump-daca-dreamers-immigration\">carta<\/a><\/span><\/em>&nbsp;<em><span georgia=\"\">firmada por diez oficiales republicanos pidi&eacute;ndole al presidente Trump que termine con el programa DACA creado por el presidente Obama:&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span georgia=\"\">&ldquo;La crueldad de esta carta es un insulto a nuestros valores. Terminar con el programa de Acci&oacute;n Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA) dividir&iacute;a a&uacute;n m&aacute;s familias sin necesidad, destrozando comunidades y hundiendo a inmigrantes en las sombras. Esto nos har&iacute;a m&aacute;s vulnerables, no m&aacute;s seguros. El programa DACA ha ayudado a cientos de miles de inmigrantes que fueron tra&iacute;dos a este pa&iacute;s como ni&ntilde;os, quienes s&oacute;lo quieren tener una oportunidad de contribuir plenamente al &uacute;nico pa&iacute;s que conocen como su hogar. Hacer de los DREAMers un blanco es incorrecto. El Partido Dem&oacute;crata cree que nuestra diversidad es nuestra mayor fuerza como pa&iacute;s. Seguiremos defendiendo a las familias trabajadoras y luchando para tener un sistema de inmigraci&oacute;n que sea sensato y razonable.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement in response to a&nbsp;letter&nbsp;signed by ten Republican officials asking President Trump to end President Obama&rsquo;s DACA program: &nbsp; &ldquo;The cruelty of this letter is an affront to our values as Americans. Ending the DACA program will needlessly tear more families apart, shatter communities, drive immigrants into the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Responds To Attempts To End DACA - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-responds-to-attempts-to-end-daca\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-30T19:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-responds-to-attempts-to-end-daca\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-responds-to-attempts-to-end-daca\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Responds To Attempts To End DACA - 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