John,

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the future of DACA: the policy that currently allows undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children to legally stay here, go to school, work, get drivers’ licenses and more without threat of deportation.

I myself am a DACA recipient. I came to the US when I was 1 year old. My dad had already been working in Los Angeles, and my mom and I came to unite our family.

I’ve lived in Southern California for as long as I can remember. My whole life is here.

But if the Supreme Court sides with Trump tomorrow and ends DACA, I and over 800,000 other Americans will have the rug pulled out from under us as we lose our legal status after years or even decades of building our lives, careers, families, and homes here in the US.

Tell the Supreme Court to protect the rights of the hundreds of thousands of people like me who’ve grown up in America and belong in our communities here by keeping DACA. Join us and United We Dream in rallying tomorrow outside the Court from 9am-1pm.

I’ve been protected by DACA since 2012 when I was 15 years old. I remember the day DACA was signed into law. I came home from school to find my mother celebrating. She told me I’d finally be able to get a drivers’ license, social security, and be able to work.

These rights are so basic that I actually had no idea I didn’t already have them. But as an undocumented person before DACA, I didn’t. And if DACA ends, they’ll be taken away from me again.

Without DACA, hundreds of thousands of people will lose their ability to work, provide for their families, open bank accounts, fly on airplanes, rent or own property, and more. We will be stripped of so many things that most people take for granted.

As the climate crisis worsens, more and more people will be forced to flee their homes due to extreme weather and conflict and will seek refuge here in America. We have to decide whether we live in the kind of country that will welcome these immigrants and support them, or that will leave people like me without rights or a home.

I joined Sunrise because I felt this was the type of community and movement that would stand up for people like me. I hope tomorrow you will prove me right.

Please stand with me tomorrow in telling the Supreme Court to protect the basic rights of immigrants like me who’ve come to this country because of climate disaster, political instability, or simply to build a better life. Rally with us outside the Court from 9am-1pm.

Thank you

Vianney