GRAND RAPIDS – Area families and leaders took park in a national day of action to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to review the challenges to reforms that help keep immigrant families together. As part of national day of action for immigrant families, leaders from the Grand Rapids area faith and civic groups joined a young immigrant whose family needs relief from deportation, relief provided by temporary reforms enacted by the Obama Administration since 2012. Those reforms included Deferred Actions on Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DAPA protects immigrants with American children and DACA protects youth brought to US before the age of 16. Eligible immigrants in both cases are given temporary relief from deportation and are allowed work permits.
“This Supreme Court must step up and take this case because it is so pivotal to millions of families,” said Vanessa Gutierrez, DACA recipient and immigration reform advocate. “In the end we need comprehensive immigration reform to stop the senseless, anti-immigrant legal attack. For now, we need the High Court to review the challenge to those attacks.”
Attorney General Bill Schuette joined other attorneys general in court actions that blocked immigrant families from deportation relief. The delays dragged on for months after the reforms were supposed to begin, complicating an already rigorous process designed to keep families together.
“There is virtually nothing more important than your loved ones and holidays are especially hard for people who don’t know the fate of their mothers, fathers, sisters or brothers,” said Alex Gillett of Justice for Our Neighbors West Michigan.
“The Supreme Court has the power to affect the lives millions of families by taking this case.”
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