The Hip Hop Movement calls for the passage of the DREAM Acts!

Sometimes, you can’t just stay quiet and hope things work themselves out. As political decisions create more and more dissension and tension amongst American citizens frustrated and embarrassed by policies instituted under the new administration more and more citizens are speaking out. The machinations of the White House to remove the DREAM Act protections for immigrants who came here as children, etc., have brought the ire of many including “The Hip Hop Movement” who issued a statement denouncing President Trump’s wish to end the immigration program.

History of the Dream Act

The first version of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act was introduced in 2001. As a result, young undocumented immigrants have since been called Dreamers. Over the last 16 years, numerous versions of the Dream Act have been introduced, all of which would have provided a pathway to legal status for undocumented youth who came to this country as children. Some versions have garnered as many as 48 co-sponsors in the Senate and 152 in the House.

Despite bipartisan support for each bill, none have become law. The bill came closest to passage in 2010 when the House of Representatives passed the bill and the Senate came five votes short of the 60 Senators needed to proceed to vote on the bill. Get more information via the American Immigration Council official website.

Here’s the official statement from The Hip Hop Movement founder and trademark owner, Ronald Savage:

The Hip Hop Movement denounces President Donald Trump’s decision to end the immigration program created by former President Barack Obama. This is a message to Donald Trump: don’t mess with those of us in the hip-hop community who support the immigrants in the United States. So many immigrants, particularly our Latino friends, came here as children and deportation is not an option for them.

“Furthermore, this is not the America that I know,” states Ronald Savage, founder of The Hip Hop Movement and owner of the trademark. “This is the land of the free and it has seemed to be more and more as a dictatorship wannabe country once President Trump took office. He stands with racism and now wants to deport immigrants who do not even have a police record. To Congress, the DREAM Act must be passed now. The Hip Hop Movement does not turn our backs on our neighbors; we will fight more than ever for our immigrant families. The move to strip young immigrants of their protection by the Trump Administration is low, cruel and inhumane, and is destroying what America stands for.

“From what I always understood, The United States stands for unity, not separation. The Hip Hop Movement is hoping that Congress does the right thing and does not repeal DACA,” concludes Savage.

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