South Bend rally aims to highlight the importance of DACA

“It’s become a critical part in our economy, it’s created multiple opportunities for youth in our community to be able to continue school, to go to college, to work, to be engaged in our community, to come out of the shadows,” Centellas said.

The rally took place at Leighton Plaza. Speakers included young adults who shared their stories about immigrating to the U.S.

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• Source: Wvpe

South Bend and a local non-profit supported Barack Obama’s executive order Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, on its fifth anniversary. The order defers deportation of children brought into the country without legal documentation. People gathered at a rally urging the federal government to make DACA a permanent law.

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