El Semanario, a bilingual publication serving Colorado’s Latinx community for over 30 years, announced their endorsement of John Hickenlooper for U.S. Senate because they know he will work tirelessly to protect DACA recipients — just like he did when he was governor. They called out Senator Cory Gardner for aiding and abetting President Trump’s crusade to terminate the DACA program, which would disrupt the lives of 15,000 DACA recipients that call Colorado home.
The El Semanario Advisory Board wrote:
The vote for U.S. Senator from Colorado and for U.S. President will be upon us in a few weeks, whether by mail-in ballot or in-person voting. The Advisory Committee for The Weekly Issue/El Semanario strongly urge you to protect the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, which has been under strident attack by President Trump since his 2016 campaign and throughout his presidency, aided and abetted by his Senator, Cory Gardner.
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Now consider DACA recipients in Donald Trump’s and Cory Gardner’s América. Do DACA children at age 6, and young people when they receive DACA certification, have legal recourse to the “Equal Protection” clause of the 14th Amendment, which protects citizens, of course, but also “persons,” citizens or not? The answer is, in Barack Obama’s América, they did. But in Trump’s and Gardner’s América, they do not, since both politicians, and their Republican cohorts, have done all they could to do away with DACA and other such protections.
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Our concern is that Trump’s and Gardner’s crusade to eliminate DACA will return, probably in time to generate renewed enthusiasm for Trump’s and Gardner’s flagging reelection campaigns, in a follow-up Executive Order. The New York Times on June 19, in “Trump Says Administration Will Try Again to End ‘Dreamers’ Program,”
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For the above reasons and more, we urge our readers to support DACA once more, and continuing. Vice President Joe Biden and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper have tirelessly supported these young people before and will continue to do so. Get Out the Vote! Joe Biden for President Joe Biden and John Hickenlooper for U.S. Senate.
Read more in El Semanario.
