Center for American Progress

PRESS CALL ADVISORY: Experts to Discuss Impact of Ending DACA Program on LGBT Immigrants
Press Advisory

PRESS CALL ADVISORY: Experts to Discuss Impact of Ending DACA Program on LGBT Immigrants

Washington, D.C. — As the Trump administration works to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has protected nearly 800,000 young people from deportation, new research sheds light on thousands of LGBTQ DACA recipients who could soon be deported to countries where their lives may be at risk.

The Center for American Progress will host a conference call on Wednesday, October 11, at 11 a.m. ET with immigration and LGBTQ experts to discuss new data from a survey of DACA recipients who identify as LGBTQ. The first-of-its-kind data describes who these immigrants are and how DACA has improved their lives by allowing them to work and study in the only country many of them have ever known.

WHO:

Cristina Jiménez, Executive Director and Co-Founder, United We Dream

Marco Quiroga, Program Director, Contigo Fund, and DACA recipient

Sharita Gruberg, Associate Director for the LGBT Research and Communications Project, Center for American Progress

Other experts TBA

WHEN: Wednesday, October 11, at 11 a.m. ET

RSVP to Sam Hananel at [email protected]

Call-in details available upon RSVP