Meet Dulce Garcia: DREAMer & Immigration Lawyer Who Is Suing Trump for Ending DACA

Meet Dulce Garcia: DREAMer & Immigration Lawyer Who Is Suing Trump for Ending DACA
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/19/meet_dulce_garcia_dreamer_immigration_lawyer

On Monday, six recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program sued the Trump administration in a San Francisco federal court over its plans to rescind the program. The lawsuit argues the Trump administration failed to follow proper administrative procedures in rescinding DACA and that revoking the program violates due process laws. DACA was instituted by the Obama administration in 2012 after years of sustained grassroots organizing by young undocumented students. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have also sued the Trump administration over its plans to end DACA. We speak with one of the six plaintiffs, Dulce Garcia, an immigration lawyer who regularly defends other immigrants in court in California. She’s been living in the United States since her family immigrated from Mexico when she was four years old.


Dulce Garcia: A Resilient ‘Dreamer’
By Andrea Lopez-Villafaña, La Prensa de San Diego, Dec 14, 2017
Dulce Garcia grew up in Barrio Logan and currently has her own law office in the community and a new one in Chula Vista.
Like the thousands of undocumented December 14, 2017immigrants known as “Dreamers,” whose futures remain on hold, local immigration and criminal defense attorney Dulce Garcia, is fighting to share their stories and find a more permanent solution for these young immigrants.


Dulce Garcia Southern Border Dreamers

I can live my dreams because I benefit from DACA. Having DACA allowed me to open my legal practice in the neighborhood where I grew up. DACA has allowed me the privilege to represent members of my community in state and federal court. Having DACA ensures that I walk into immigration court fully focused on my client’s case without concern on whether I will be placed in immigration detention or whether my opponent in court will initiate removal proceedings against me. I have been able to walk into court to ensure that our constitutional protections are equally applied to members of my community.