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struggle4progress

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Fri Sep 8, 2017, 02:49 PM Sep 2017

Candlelight vigil held in Cleveland to DACA, DREAMers

By Justin Madden

... Thursday's crowd weathered graying and swollen skies to listen to speakers voicing concerns about how the termination of DACA would uproot their lives, families and force them into countries they do not know ...

Mendez, who recently renewed his DACA permit for the third time, said he and others like him ... pay taxes, obey the laws and are a part of communities aimed at making cities, states and the world a better place ...

For an 18-year-old Case Western Reserve student, being in an America is the only thing she knows. She said she was brought to the United States less than a year old and identifies as an American. It's the only home she knows. She speaks and writes in English much more fluently than she can in Spanish, she said ...

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/09/candlelight_vigil_held_in_supp.html

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