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Dear John,
As a restaurant owner, Sarahi knows what long work hours are. Her 14-hour shifts include her training staff, juggling paperwork, and managing lunch rushes on a daily basis. She is the first in her family to own a business and decided to honor her roots by serving up the Mexican food she grew up eating. However, unlike other entrepreneurs, Sarahi faces an uncertain future as one of the 544,000 current DACA recipients in the country.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is at risk of being ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the upcoming year, leaving hundreds of thousands of community members, business owners, nurses, lawyers, teachers, and more essential workers without the ability to legally work in the United States or protection from family separation.
DACA recipients, along with the other 11 million undocumented people who have lived and worked here for decades, continue to be left without a pathway to citizenship. This July 4th, as we celebrate our nation’s anniversary, let’s remember our neighbors, friends, and families who are American in every way but legal status.
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