Hey, this is Drey, and welcome to Potsay the People.

This is a bonus episode specifically devoted to DACA, given the recent events that have

happened this week.

We have Marissa, who is a dreamer, a documented person in the United States.

We also have Eric Columbus, who worked on these issues in the Obama administration.

And we have a word from Clint Smith, the third, who is a regular part of the podcast as a

part of the news, but he's going to join us for some brief commentary about the issue

this week as well.

Now it's important to remember that those who are documented, dreamers in this country deserve

our support because they are people, because they're whole people, because they are people

who live in this country who are worthy of everything that everybody else has worthy of.

In the past 24 hours for eight hours, we've heard people say that they should be in the

country because it wasn't their fault that they got brought here because they work hard

jobs and they bring a lot of money to the economy, all things that are true, but they should

be here because they're people.

And we live in a country that should honor the fact that young people who grew up in

this country that they should be afforded the rights of citizenship.

And we know that a Congress needs to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform,

but there are also a lot of misconceptions about what DACA is.

Over the past 24, 48 hours, I've heard people say things and comment on this issue in a way

that they aren't fully informed about.

So I wanted to reach out to somebody who was documented in an expert to help us ground

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