{"id":4266,"date":"2017-09-05T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2018-03-09T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:09:19","slug":"2017-09-05-pr-naffaa-will-continue-fighting-for-daca-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/2017-09-05-pr-naffaa-will-continue-fighting-for-daca-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"2017-09-05 PR- NaFFAA Will Continue Fighting for DACA Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 5, 2017<br \/>\nContact: Jason Tengco, NaFFAA Executive Director<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jason.tengco@naffaa.org\">jason.tengco@naffaa.org<\/a><br \/>\nTel. 650-867-9837<\/p>\n<h1><b>\u00a0NaFFAA Will Continue Fighting for DACA Recipients <\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b>Washington, DC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump Administration is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but with a 6-month delay. \u00a0Created under the Obama Administration in 2012, DACA has allowed nearly 5,000 young Filipinos &#8211; along with 800,000 other individuals &#8211; to receive work permits and to be protected from deportation. \u00a0Following the Administration\u2019s announcement, the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) issued the following statements:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe security and opportunity afforded to DACA recipients is a true representation of the American Dream,\u201d said NaFFAA National Chairman Brendan Flores. \u201cEliminating DACA protections unjustly rips away the ladder of opportunity for hard-working people, divides families, and pushes immigrant communities back into the shadows. NaFFAA stands in solidarity with diverse community organizations fighting for the nearly 800,000 young individuals &#8211; including nearly 5,000 Filipinos &#8211; who have benefited from DACA so that they can reach their full potential.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NaFFAA Executive Director Jason Tengco added, \u201cToday\u2019s decision to rescind DACA is a major setback to the 800,000 young individuals who have benefited from the program\u2019s protections. DACA recipients are American in every sense of the way, except for their paperwork, and we should allow them to thrive and build lives here in the United States. Now is the time to take our fight to Capitol Hill, and NaFFAA renews its call for Congress to pass the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform that unites families, rather than divides them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>About NaFFAA<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. Established in 1997, NaFFAA has been the standard bearer for promoting the welfare and well-being of the 4 million Filipinos and Filipino Americans throughout the United States. NaFFAA\u2019s vision is to serve as the voice of all Filipinos and Filipino Americans by uniting, engaging, and empowering diverse individuals and community organizations through leadership development, civic engagement, and national advocacy. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.naffaa.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2017 Contact: Jason Tengco, NaFFAA Executive Director jason.tengco@naffaa.org Tel. 650-867-9837 \u00a0NaFFAA Will Continue Fighting for DACA Recipients Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump Administration is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but with a 6-month delay. \u00a0Created under the Obama Administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressrelease","tag-daca"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angatpangasinan.com\/alps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}