Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, April 4, 2017.
Chicago “Dreamers” consider whether to stay in the U.S. or leave with deported family members
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allowed undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. by their parents as children to work and study legally in the U.S. With President Donald Trump threatening to crackdown on undocumented immigrants, many local “Dreamers” are worried about their parents being deported and facing a difficult choice: stay in the U.S. or leave with their deported parents. Esmeralda Gomeztagle is a 17-year-old high school senior who is planning to stay in the U.S. with her sisters if her parents are deported. “Hispanics are willing to do whatever they need to do to get their family’s food on the table, but there’s a lot of misconceptions about why immigrants are here,” she told the Sun-Times. “As long as we stand together, we’ll get through it. It’s not the first time immigrants have been discriminated against.” [Sun-Times]
