{"id":103753,"date":"2017-09-05T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-students-vow-resistance-to-trumps-daca-decision\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:17:36","slug":"colorado-students-vow-resistance-to-trumps-daca-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-students-vow-resistance-to-trumps-daca-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado students vow resistance to Trump\u2019s DACA decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Diego
Diego Rios, 23, of Rockville, Md., rallies in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, outside of the White House on Tuesday. President Donald Trump will end a program that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children and call for Congress to find a legislative solution. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the changes Tuesday.<\/span>Jacquelyn Martin\/Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

DENVER \u2013 Hundreds of college and high school students demonstrated in downtown Denver, Boulder and elsewhere in Colorado on Tuesday to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to repeal a program protecting young immigrants from deportation.<\/p>\n

Protesters converged on the Auraria campus of Metropolitan State University in Denver to hear speakers denounce the decision and demand that Congress act. Many held posters reading, \u201cAccept my resistance and expect my resistance\u201d and \u201cNo borders, no nations, no racists, no deportations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s administration will \u201cwind down\u201d a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Tuesday, calling the Obama administration\u2019s program \u201can unconstitutional exercise of authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government will stop processing new applications under President Barack Obama\u2019s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which has provided nearly 800,000 young immigrants \u2013 including 17,000 in Colorado \u2013 a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the U.S.<\/p>\n

But the administration is giving Congress six months to come up with a legislative fix before the government stops renewing permits for people already covered by the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what to do. I don\u2019t know how to act. I\u2019m just going to show up to work until I can\u2019t anymore,\u201d said Paul Yumblo, 25, a teacher who was brought to the U.S. from Ecuador at age 4.<\/p>\n

Dozens of high school students in Boulder marched to the University of Colorado campus. Activists called for rallies in Longmont, Glenwood Springs and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations were held nationwide, including outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix, and in Los Angeles and Miami.<\/p>\n

University and community college leaders across Colorado condemned the decision and vowed not to cooperate with federal immigration authorities without court orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart goes out to all those impacted,\u201d said University of Denver chancellor Rebecca Chopp.<\/p>\n

Others vowing to protect their students included leaders at Colorado College, Regis University, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n

Democratic and some Republican politicians condemned Trump\u2019s decision, while GOP U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of suburban Aurora said he would push legislation to extend DACA\u2019s protections for three years to give lawmakers time to find a permanent solution.<\/p>\n

Others, including Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, said it was time for Congress to act \u2013 although Congress has repeatedly failed to adopt immigration overhaul legislation.<\/p>\n

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper urged the state\u2019s congressional delegation to try by pursuing passage of the \u201cDream Act,\u201d which would provide a path to legal U.S. citizenship for DACA beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not turn our back on these young people and neither should our country,\u201d Hickenlooper said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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