Thread: Dream Fast
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06-09-2009, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by YesWeCan View Post
See the problem with that is that I don't think we'd be safe from deportation, making ourselves seen in public like that.
Sadly, the best way to make DA pass is to make ourselves public. If you are a estranger that wants a free load, it is easier to deny you. After all, why should you have the same chance that my USA citizen kids?

Another very different is if you are a son, a daughter and neighbor a member of the chess team/congregation/football team. You are part of this community so we cannot let you go.

There is no mistake as to why MAGraduate and Matias show their faces everywhere. We need a face right there to show them that we are part of this country.

That does not mean to put a t-shirt saying you are an illegal alien and go and get your groceries. It means to be willing to be brave and show that we are not aliens when it counts. Plus, I appeared in Univision Sacramento two years ago, Gabe just appeared on the news and nothing happened.

I freely admitted to my former high school teacher and to all the member of my organization that I am undocumented. It was really scary and at some point shameful, like I am less than them. Still, it is better because no longer this is about the poor undocumented people, it is about one of them. It is also empowering because I am not less than them and I my crime not amoral.

Honestly, the enemy went around with their own key congress staff allies and said that we were claiming to be citizens while calling and writing. Although it is a lie, us calling, faxing and writing is not enough if we do not have the support of others that will call, write and fax with us.

I know many of you cannot go back to your home country. That is not everyone and it will be an act of cowardice to attach myself to a desperate group just because I am afraid and ashamed. Plus, who say that ICE grabbing and dropping me in five hours Tijuana is not extreme hardship? Still, if we are not willing to do calculated risks for the sake of our little dream community and ourselves, then, we can wait forever for Dream because it will never happen.
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