#94: DACA Updates and Presidential Lawsuits
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🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The future of DACA is one of this week's top political stories, and we check in with Cristina Jiménez, executive director of United We Dream, to discuss the latest from Capitol Hill. Then, Maria and Julio speak with attorney Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute about why his group is suing President Trump for blocking critics on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Julio, and as you know, so much is going on in Washington right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Ever since the president made the comments that he made about |
| 0:08.0 | shithole countries, any semblance of a possible deal on DACA and immigration, a bipartisan deal, |
| 0:15.0 | like it seems to have exploded. |
| 0:17.0 | So I'm kind of like, what is going to go on? |
| 0:19.0 | Is the government going to shut down on January 19th because there's not not a DACA deal? Were those comments the cause of all this? So I called Christina Jimenez of |
| 0:30.0 | United Week Dream MacArthur Genius who is literally in the trenches of this fight to see what she thinks about what's going on. |
| 0:39.0 | Christina? |
| 0:40.0 | Hi Culeo, how are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Hey, I appreciate you taking the time because like I never thought that'd be a crazier week for you. |
| 0:48.0 | You were one of the top like voices on this. |
| 0:51.0 | We had you on a couple of months ago. You were saying like this is this is going to be our |
| 0:55.0 | strategy to look into how DACA becomes tied into the budget and a possible |
| 1:00.5 | government shutdown what's the mood right now? I mean, this week in |
| 1:05.6 | Washington, how's it going? |
| 1:07.8 | Well, the urgency and the responsibility and the pressure of this moment is real. |
| 1:14.4 | We have young people that continue to lose status every day. |
| 1:20.4 | Over 15,000 people now have lost the protection from DACA and we know that the continuing |
| 1:29.0 | resolution that keeps the government funded expires on January 19. This is the opportunity for the |
| 1:37.6 | Dream Act to be included as part of the budget negotiations because Republicans are going to need Democrats to be able to pass this. |
| 1:47.0 | We need as a country to see action. |
| 1:50.4 | In the previous set of protests that happened before Christmas where the spending bill |
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