DACA: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

This session was held at the Equity and Human Rights Conference in Torrance on March 4th and led by Patricia Rucker.

DACA is an executive order signed by Barack Obama in 2012 that gives registered protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.

DACA fees are $495 per person and the recipients need to reapply every two years in order to receive temporary protection from deportation and a work permit.

Recipients pay the same taxes as U.S. citizens and they pay into the Social Security fund.  They do not receive Social Security benefits, Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, and the Affordable Care Act.

In order to qualify for DACA the recipients had to have come to the U.S. before June 15, 2007 and be younger than 16 years old at the time.  They must have a clean criminal past.

95% are in school or have a job.

5,000 DACA recipients are California teachers.

22,000 DACA recipients did not renew their status in the first month after the September rescission order by President Trump.

72,300 undocumented students are enrolled in California public colleges and half probably have DACA protection right now.

People whose DACA protection expired before March 5, 2018 had the opportunity to reapply for another two years.  For everyone else their protection will start to expire if another plan isn’t developed.

Tammy Capilla, Equity & Human Rights Chair/LGBTQ+ Contact

CTA #ArmMeWith Personal Video

If you'd like to share what you would like to be armed with, you can create a video and upload it to this CTA website. The website has a sign you can print out and use in the video.

Also, the student-led March for Our Lives is this Saturday and there are marches happening in Brea, Pico Rivera, and Upland. Find out more information at MarchForOurLives.com

https://stories.cta.org/armmewith/

 

Bargaining Team Members

The new Bargaining Team is as follows:

  • Elena Caballero - Chair
  • Maria Aguilar
  • David Chen
  • Lena Solis-Aguilar
  • Leticia Urias

Their first team meeting was February 22, 2018.  They created a survey that was presented to the Representative Council on Wednesday, March 14th and it will be distributed at the staff meetings during the week of March 19 -23, '18.

ACCESS: PART OF A SOCIAL JUSTICE LENS CHECKLIST

I participated in the “Organizing for Social Justice” session at the CTA Issues Conference this January.  It was 1 ½ hours long and covered a lot of ground, so this article will focus on one small piece of that session having to do with access.  Most of this information was taken directly from the “BCTF Social Justice Lens Booklet” found at: https://bctf.ca/uploadedFiles/Public/SocialJustice/Publications/SJLens.pdf

What challenges keep some students from accessing the same opportunities as their peers?

Do our programs, resources, events, and so forth meet the following criteria for access?  If not, we should identify alternatives that do satisfy these criteria.

ACCESS

  • values a welcoming and inclusive approach to all people equally
  • values openness to the ideas and opinions of others as equal participants
  • teaches the value of multiple perspectives
  • demonstrates respect for democratic processes and civil society
  • values community and cooperation
  • responsive to all others equally

Tammy Capilla, MVTA Equity Team Chair and LGBTQ+ Contact