DACA Decision: Check-In with Miriam Gonzalez

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🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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When the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that DACA could remain in place, recipient Miriam Gonzalez was relieved. As a plaintiff in the case, she's been fighting to keep the program alive since 2017 and we've been following her story. In this bonus episode — an update on Miriam, and why this decision is such a big deal.

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0:00.0	My name is Miriam Gonzalez. I am a
0:03.5	sixth grade Humanities teacher and
0:05.5	Los Angeles and I am also a
0:07.6	plaintive in the DACA case. I went to
0:10.2	the Supreme Court. Miriam found out
0:12.3	the Supreme Court blocked Presidid
0:14.0	Trump's attempt to end DACA on Thursday
0:16.6	June 18th 2020 around seven in the
0:19.6	morning. My dad's at work so there's
0:21.8	no way of like talking to him. My mom was
0:23.4	asleep so the only ones that I kind of
0:25.5	woke up were my sisters when I opened
0:27.5	the door. I was like, oh my god, with
0:30.1	profanity and then I was like, we won.
0:35.5	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji. I'm Gene Demby and
0:38.5	this is Coach Witch from NPR. Gene, as you and many
0:44.4	of our longtime listeners know, I've been
0:46.3	in touch with Miriam Gonzalez since
0:48.0	early 2018 and I checked with her again at
0:51.3	a park right by her house here in L.A.
0:53.6	I remember you profiled Miriam and two of our siblings
0:56.5	for a coach's story about mixed status families.
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