Yes­ter­day, in response to the Supreme Court uphold­ing the Deferred Action for Child­hood Arrivals (DACA) pro­gram last month, the Trump Admin­is­tra­tion took expect­ed steps to dis­man­tle the pro­gram, releas­ing a memo that said it would not be accept­ing new DACA appli­ca­tions, reject­ing most advance parole requests, and lim­it­ing those with pend­ing renewals  to only one year instead of two years. 

For the over 5,000 South Asian DACA recip­i­ents, and the over 20,000 Indi­ans alone who remain eli­gi­ble for DACA, this will have a direct impact on any exist­ing renew­al appli­ca­tions and for any undoc­u­ment­ed South Asian youth who were hop­ing to apply for DACA.

We knew the Supreme Court vic­to­ry was tem­po­rary, allow­ing the Admin­is­tra­tion to retal­i­ate. We must con­tin­ue push­ing back, forg­ing ahead, and ensur­ing that we fight for poli­cies that sup­port all immi­grant com­mu­ni­ties with­out harm­ing oth­ers.

Here are things you can do right now:

• Join a com­mu­ni­ty call today at 8pmET to dis­cuss what this means 
• Con­tribute to the DACA Renew­al fund and to move­ment orga­ni­za­tions who are fight­ing this every step of the way.
• Email your Sen­a­tor by click­ing this link here and demand­ing they sup­port the Dream and Promise Act which would ensure per­ma­nent pro­tec­tions for undoc­u­ment­ed peo­ple and com­mit to STOP fund­ing this Administration’s  Depor­ta­tion Force
• Post on your socials using the TRUMP ENDS DACA TOOLKIT | #HomeIsHere
• Change your Face­book and Twit­ter pro­file pics to add the #Home­IsHere fil­ter