Austin activists furious over LULAC president's letter to Trump
LULAC members in Austin are among those nationwide who are furious over a letter from the president of the oldest Latino civil rights organization declaring the group’s support for the White House’s proposed immigration plan.
Roger Rocha, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, sent a letter Sunday congratulating President Donald Trump on the White House’s proposed immigration plan. Presented last week, the plan would provide a pathway to citizenship to up to 1.8 million immigrant youth brought to the country as children, while allocating $25 billion for the construction of a border wall.
“It’s disgraceful that the president of LULAC put his personal agenda before the families that LULAC represents,” said Montserrat Garibay, an Austin activist who has been a LULAC member for more than 15 years. “He’s giving the president a support in his white supremacy agenda and that’s a disgrace.”
Since the release of the letter, critics have been calling for Rocha’s resignation on social media using the hashtag #FueraRocha (fire Rocha), and more than 300 people have signed an online petition. The LULAC Young Adult Membership also started its own petition in support of a clean DREAM Act, a standalone bill on the fate of young immigrants known as Dreamers without any attachments of border wall security.
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