‘Only home I know’: Milwaukee dreamer reacts to new federal rule aiming to protect DACA

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — At two years previous in 1999, Alondra Garcia migrated from Mexico to america together with her household. 

About 15 years later, she grew to become a dreamer.

“Milwaukee is the one house I do know, the one house I keep in mind,” Garcia mentioned.

A dreamer is a recipient of the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program. 

DACA was created whereas President Barack Obama was in workplace to permit tons of of 1000’s of unauthorized immigrants, who arrived within the U.S. as youngsters, to reside and work with out concern of deportation.

“My dad was telling me, reassuring me this was going to be one of the best factor that might ever occur to me, and I took his phrase for it, and it has been ever since,” Garcia mentioned.

Garcia mentioned DACA has allowed her to construct a life in Wisconsin as a Milwaukee Public Faculty (MPS) instructor, a tax payer and a contributor to the neighborhood.

But, she mentioned on a regular basis is crammed with uncertainty. 

“Figuring out that at any second, , we may lose what we work so onerous for due to our standing,” Garcia mentioned.

The Biden Administration is shifting to guard DACA from the authorized challenges that threaten its existence.

A rule by the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) will codify this system into the federal authorities’s code of rules.

“It is a step in the proper path,” Ahead Latino Nationwide President Darryl Morin mentioned.

Morin informed CBS 58 that the rule will enable dreamers to really feel secure once more, however there’s extra work to be executed. 

He mentioned he is ready on Congress to permit DACA recipients to acquire authorized standing.

“It is the least we will do, to let these youngsters regulate their standing, and to allow them to keep right here safely and with out concern,” Morin mentioned.

For the second, Garcia mentioned she feels extra comfy with the brand new rule, however it’s not sufficient.

“If our flesh pressers, our authorities, actually do worth their folks, immigrants are a part of that individuals,” Garcia informed CBS 58.

The rule is anticipated to take impact on Oct. 31.

CBS 58 reached out to a number of Republican members of Wisconsin’s Congressional Delegation for remark, however didn’t instantly get a response.