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Hear the Bern

33 - Best of Bernie: DACA Fight | On the Trail with AOC | Elegy for Oligarchs

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Briahna talks to protesters outside the Supreme Court on the day that the justices hear arguments on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Bernie hits the campaign trail with AOC and stops by Desus & Mero to guess (badly) how much sneakers cost.

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0:00.0

I give me a hug.

0:03.0

A hug. Last Tuesday I attended a protest outside the Supreme Court, which is in the

0:18.8

midst of hearing arguments on whether the Trump administration can

0:22.3

suspend the Obama-era deferred action for childhood

0:25.3

arrivals or DACA program. The young people who registered under DACA, known as Dreamers, came to the

0:32.1

U.S. as children, many of them remembering little of life

0:36.0

before their arrival.

0:37.6

DACA provides a kind of temporary shelter from deportation.

0:41.3

But of course, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power

0:44.9

to destroy even this limited program. I ran into Belen CISA, Latino press

0:50.8

secretary for the Bernie 2020 campaign, a dreamer herself.

0:54.8

How are you guys?

0:56.2

Good.

0:58.2

In awe.

0:59.2

I've never been in front of the Supreme Court.

1:00.6

Oh, really?

1:01.6

Yeah. Belin told me what was at stake.

1:03.8

Why so many had gathered at the steps of the Supreme Court.

1:07.4

Right now we have a huge crowd of allies, DACA recipients, undocumented youth and their families who just watched the plaintiffs leave the court.

1:21.0

And after today, hopefully we'll be able to find out if the DACA program

1:26.8

is seen as constitutional in the eyes of the highest court in the land and this could

1:32.0

mean the difference between undocumented youth being at risk of

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