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11-05-2025
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America's Undocumented Educators Unsure of What's Next Under Trump
This article was originally published in The 19th. This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. LOS ANGELES — Scattered among the shrubs on the southern border lie belongings migrants left behind — toothbrushes, water bottles, baseball caps. Some of the owners forged north, crossing the boundary undetected. Others were apprehended or succumbed to dehydration, drowning or one of the unimaginable dangers in the harsh desert that straddles Mexico and the United States. Angélica Reyes survived. At nine months old, she made the journey that could have claimed her life just as it started. Since 1994, approximately 10,000 migrants have died in the borderlands. That year, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect. Designed to open trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, the now-defunct policy has faced criticism for depressing Mexican wages. Their income flatlining, Reyes said, her parents left the city of Guadalajara, in the western part of Mexico, and headed with her to Los Angeles. They did not have authorization to live in the United States. Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Reyes is now 32, though she remembers knowing she was undocumented as early as first grade. 'My mom was very cognizant of the discrimination and the obstacles that I would face throughout my life,' she said. 'She made it clear, like, 'You can't mess up. You need to be twice as good to get half of the respect. You need to really prove that you earned your spot.'' To do that, Reyes earned the good grades that set her up to become a history teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is one of about 15,000 teachers — and among the more than 835,000 undocumented people — who have received temporary permission to live, work and study in the United States through an Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Women represent over half of DACA recipients, whose future in this country has been under threat by legal challenges to the program's existence and the anti-immigration agenda of President Donald Trump. If DACA ends, the goal of ongoing litigation, 700 education personnel, including teachers and teacher aides, would lose their jobs each month for two years as their work permits are revoked, according to an immigration reform organization. In California, the state with the most DACA recipients, 200 educators would lose their jobs monthly. In Texas, 100 would. DACA-recipient teachers relate firsthand to the estimated 620,000 undocumented K-1 2 students, who confide in them about their experiences in immigrant families. They show youth that regardless of legal status, it's possible to attain one's professional goals. Many of these teachers are also activists, fighting for their students, themselves and other marginalized people. They see themselves as assets to schools. 'My immigration status inspires both my undocumented and documented students because they know all the obstacles that are faced by folks with my immigration status can be overcome,' Reyes said. 'They know that if I could do it, that's something that they could do as well.' Without undocumented teachers, educator shortages across states could worsen. California has spent about $1.6 billion since the 2016-17 school year to tackle its teacher shortage. Still, the state issued 11 percent fewer teaching credentials between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years. Last year, it enacted legislation to eliminate barriers to entry, dropping a standardized test teaching candidates had to pass to demonstrate competence in math, reading and writing. But since undocumented immigrants aren't widely perceived to be career professionals, the fact that schoolchildren nationwide depend on them has received scant attention in the broader immigration debate. Maria Miranda, elementary vice president of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) labor union, said undocumented teachers 'bring a different perspective to the table, a different skill set.' Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the nation's second largest teacher labor union, said DACA recipients in classrooms have strengthened the United States. 'They are role models, like all teachers, and should be treated as such, but instead, they are made to feel uncertain and fearful as their protections are challenged in court and as the Trump administration promotes mass deportations, even from sensitive locations like schools that were once considered off limits,' Weingarten said. 'Immigration reform can't be used as an excuse to rip teachers out of classrooms, where they are so desperately needed.' When Reyes was about to register for the SAT during her senior year in high school, one misinformed guidance counselor asked her why she planned to take the college entrance exam, insisting that higher education was off limits to undocumented students. 'I was devastated. It broke my heart,' Reyes said. 'I remember crying and telling my mom, 'I worked hard, for what?'' Since 2001, however, California has extended access to in-state college tuition to undocumented students who have lived there long term. Unaware of this law and under the assumption that her counselor was correct, Reyes missed the deadline for the SAT and for the application to University of California schools, so she enrolled in a community college she could afford, a common path for many undocumented immigrants. Then, in 2011, a state law was enacted that made her cry tears of gratitude: the California DREAM Act. The policy allows undocumented immigrants who entered the United States before they were 16 to obtain financial aid if they've earned qualifying credits at California schools. These young people have been nicknamed Dreamers after the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a 2001 federal bill that would have given them legal status had it succeeded. Reyes said that when she decided to apply to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a community college counselor took in her light brown skin and wavy black mane and without so much as seeing the 4.0 GPA in her transcript, told her to apply somewhere less competitive. 'I'm a competitive student!' Reyes recalled balking. 'She opened my chart and she was, like, 'Oh, you actually are.' Her tune changed so quickly. It was really infuriating because if I had believed her, like many students believe counselors, I would have not gone to UCLA.' In college, Reyes had to make a choice about her career path. Her research project on youth activism at Abraham Lincoln High School, where she graduated in 2010, had drawn her to education. 'I realized that's where I was needed,' she said. It was at Lincoln High in March 1968 that students spearheaded the protests known as the Chicano Blowouts or East Los Angeles Walkouts. With signs stating 'School Not Prison' and 'We Are Not Dirty Mexicans,' almost 15,000 youth from Lincoln and other schools in historically Mexican-American East L.A. walked out of classes for a week to protest their substandard education. Back then, students could be paddled for speaking Spanish, and with few advanced courses at Eastside schools, they were routinely steered to vocational classes like auto shop. These inequities contributed to a 60 percent dropout rate in the area. Jailed for their activism against these circumstances, the teenagers garnered community support that ushered in sweeping policy changes — bilingual instruction, ethnic studies and more Latino teachers. Today, the carnicerías, bungalow homes and palm trees along North Broadway Avenue, leading to 93 acres of green hills, offer no hint of the past tumult, but a mural at Lincoln commemorates the walkouts of nearly six decades ago. Through her research, which also explored youth activism of the 2010s, Reyes learned that contemporary Lincoln High students continued to have unmet needs, such as support applying for college financial aid or accessing legal services as members of immigrant households. So when Lincoln High teachers asked if she wanted to develop a space to serve students, Reyes threw herself into the effort. The Paula Crisostomo Dream Center — named after a lead activist of the Chicano Blowouts and the inspiration for the 2006 film 'Walkout' — opened at Lincoln in 2015. 'We established programming for immigrant students, for immigrant parents. We did immigrant and educational history,' Reyes said. 'It's still a resource for students at Lincoln, and we've expanded it to several other schools.' Working at the Dream Center for three years convinced her that teaching was the best way to reach undocumented and marginalized youth. Rather than dismiss them, as she had been dismissed by school counselors, she would inspire students to excel academically regardless of legal status. In 2012, four years before she graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in sociology and six years before she earned her master's in education from the university, DACA enabled undocumented students like herself to become career professionals. In 2017, the year Reyes began teaching, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that as many as 20,000 DACA-eligible individuals were involved in education occupations. But today the number of DACA-recipient educators is 25 percent lower as litigation has frozen new applications. It's complicated: Those two words capture Reyes' feelings about DACA. Although the program allowed her to teach, she has long viewed it as flawed, exploitative and a 'constant reminder' she isn't 'fully accepted.' DACA stems from the activism of undocumented college students frustrated that the DREAM Act failed and that their immigration status would limit their potential, said Jennifer R. Nájera, author of 'Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education.' Fighting for immigrant rights, they found a purpose. Like the DREAM Act, DACA was reserved for young people who came to the United States as children and didn't have criminal histories. 'They had to graduate from high school or college or go to the military, show 'good moral character,'' said Nájera, an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Instead of citizenship, Obama's executive order 'provided temporary relief from deportation, a two-year relief specifically, that could be renewed, and a work permit, which was a big deal.' While DACA recipients cherished their professional opportunities, some contended that the policy cast them as second-class citizens, Nájera said. That includes Reyes. 'I knew it was a Band-Aid,' she said. 'In fact, when I first started teaching, my DACA expired because of an issue with the application. They had asked me if I was in a gang, and apparently I didn't check off the X hard enough, so I wasn't hired at the beginning of the year. I remember feeling this immense frustration.' Los Angeles Unified employs about 300 DACA-recipient school personnel, according to Miranda of the UTLA labor union. As Reyes' teaching career started, DACA weathered the first of multiple legal challenges. Trump rescinded the program during his first term, a move the Supreme Court later blocked; at the time, Reyes told her students about possibly losing her job. Since then, she has endured several other threats to DACA , though she's now pained to tell her students that the program isn't accepting new applicants. DACA, she said, must be replaced with a sustainable alternative. In a December interview, Trump said, 'We're going to have to do something with' DACA recipients. 'They were brought into this country many years ago' and 'in many cases, they've become successful.' But that sympathy has been absent from his immigration policies since he resumed office. He has issued an executive order prohibiting undocumented college students from receiving in-state tuition. He has also lifted restrictions on immigration enforcement in 'sensitive locations' such as churches, hospitals and schools, prompting parents nationwide to keep kids out of class. 'A lot of times, the children are U.S. citizens and the parents are concerned,' Reyes said. 'But I've had students who shared that their parents are U.S. citizens, and they're still scared because they know that U.S. citizens are also caught up in these raids. So, this isn't about criminality. It's about the targeting of Brown folks.' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal authorities reportedly detained or deported at least 10 U.S. citizens, including children, in the first 100 days of Trump's second term. Last month, the California state superintendent presented Senate Bill 48 to limit ICE appearances at schools as absences have spiked — and schools could lose millions of dollars since their funding is tied to average daily student attendance. About half of California children belong to families that include at least one immigrant parent, while one in five live in mixed-status families with at least one undocumented parent. 'It's very taxing emotionally for our members and our students,' Miranda said of ICE enforcement. 'We have students at the elementary level who are terrified of seeing anyone in uniform. Some of them are so young that they don't know the difference between the police and immigration. It's a very scary moment.' When Trump targeted DACA during his first term, Reyes warned in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece that disbanding the program could upend public education. But now she says her students deserve more than DACA's 'breadcrumbs.' 'We need to fight for something new because my kids want to be chefs and doctors and lawyers, but they're being held back by their immigration status,' she said. 'It's excruciating in two ways: One, I want my students to have the opportunities that they deserve to serve the community. And, two, I don't know when I'm going to be taken from them because of my own uncertainty.' For now, she knows that her presence makes a difference at her high school. Los Angeles Unified has an immigrant student body of about 30,000 students, according to UTLA. Of those, one in four is undocumented. After Reyes shared her immigration status with students during a recent lunchtime conversation, she said a ninth grader confessed that she planned to quit school because she, too, is undocumented. Learning Reyes managed to become a teacher made the girl reconsider. 'It was really beautiful to see that, like it reignited her hope to have a bright future,' Reyes said. Although the risks of revealing her status frighten her, her conscience compels her to, Reyes said. She quoted Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata: 'It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.' Staying silent as the president attacks immigrants would make it hard for Reyes to face the youth in her life — her son, especially. Whenever a state turned red on Election Night, Nathan Reyes felt his anxiety shoot up. Still, he held out hope Kamala Harris would win. Then the Electoral College math made it plain: Donald Trump would be president again. Although he's a U.S. citizen, Nathan wondered what lay ahead for his undocumented relatives under a president promising mass deportations. 'I feel worried for them because if they get deported, what am I going to do?' he asked. 'Where am I going to stay?' So, he began to plan. He and his family would 'have to pick our poison' — stay in a country hostile to their presence or self-deport together to Mexico regardless of citizenship status. That her son, with a pile of ringlets and a round cherubic face, was even considering these options stunned Reyes. Nathan is in seventh grade. 'I was like, 'Oh, my God, this kid is 12,'' Angélica Reyes said. 'Why is he talking about this?'' Rummaging through a bin of childhood possessions in her mother's bedroom last year, Reyes found a poem she wrote in fourth grade about her fear of police. Her parents were street food vendors, an occupation California criminalized until 2018, so Reyes realized growing up that one brush with the law could have seen them deported. Just as she did not have a childhood free of deportation fears, neither has her son. Nathan, now 13, is hardly the only youth pondering the possibility of a relative's departure, according to Lisette Sanchez, a psychologist in Long Beach, California. She said children are leaving school with 'Know Your Rights' cards advising them of their civil liberties during ICE encounters, but they may not understand the information. 'They're just feeling fear,' she said. 'They're being told something's gonna happen. So mental health wise, you're looking at chronic anxiety. You're looking at hypervigilance.' To gain some sense of control, they may overconsume social media, leading to racing thoughts, rapid heart rate and sleeping difficulties. 'It's this chronic nonstop anxiety because the state of uncertainty feels never-ending, and in many ways, it is not ending, right?' Sanchez said. 'There's different news every day.' By speaking openly with children, parents can help them better manage stress, she said. Teachers, if they're permitted, can broach the topic of immigration. Nathan appreciated how his Spanish teacher led a class discussion after the election. 'Sharing your feelings and emotions and finding that a lot of other people are feeling very similar can bring comfort to you,' he said. Reyes gave birth to her son while she was in college and briefly wed to his father. She applied for legal status as an immediate family member of a U.S. citizen, her spouse. But years passed before the federal government responded to her request, she said. By then, her marriage had ended. 'I don't think people understand how long the path to citizenship can be, what it looks like, how costly and time-intensive it is,' Sanchez said. Reyes, who has not remarried, said being undocumented seeps into every aspect of her life, including romantic relationships. She feels obligated to tell prospective partners about her status. 'I remember to always be upfront, like, 'Hey, I'm undocumented. I don't want you to think I'm going to use you for papers,'' she said. Reyes lives in one of the country's 4.7 million mixed-status households, which include undocumented individuals and people with legal status or U.S. citizenship. If she gets deported, she has arranged for others to care for her son. Her sister, two years younger, is a U.S. citizen. Asked if she resents that twist of fate, Reyes said, 'I'm happy that she gets to be safe. I think that there's a lot of pain and guilt for her.' Her sister realizes, Reyes said, that her entire family could be taken away. Should she be forced out of the only country she considers home, Reyes wants her son to know this: 'I would never willingly leave you. I am dedicated to you. I love you, and I will always be working as hard as possible to get back to you.' For Nathan, it is mind-boggling that anyone would want his mother out. He doesn't understand why politicians demonize immigrants. Trump launched his first presidential campaign calling them criminals and continues to malign them. 'My mom has done a lot of good for her community,' Nathan said. 'She has organized a finders keepers closet where people who don't have some resources they need, like canned food or clothes, can take what they need.' Just as Nathan defends her honor, Reyes vouches for her parents. Her mother is now a nail technician and her father is a food vendor. Growing up, she said, she watched them visit the sick, volunteer at churches and fundraise for the poor. 'Whenever they saw a need, they stepped up, and they didn't wait for someone else to help,' she said. She's hurt when people sympathize with Dreamers while disparaging their parents, that the immigration system paints family members as saints or sinners. The DACA recipients she's researched feel similarly, Nájera said. 'Many of the students that I interviewed were always talking about their parents,' Nájera said. 'They did not want their stories to be divorced from their parents and their family stories. These families, they're units.' But the Dream Act caused a migrant generational divide, insinuating that those who arrived in this country as children deserve citizenship, while their parents and others who arrived as adults do not, Nájera said. Migration often occurs out of necessity. For example, after NAFTA took effect in 1994, U.S. agricultural exports flooded Mexico, displacing workers, according to Edward Alden, a distinguished visiting professor in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. Four years earlier, over 4 million Mexican migrants were in the United States, a figure that ballooned to nearly 13 million — around 9 percent of Mexico's population — by 2008. Reyes said NAFTA crushed the bakery business her father's side of the family owned because it could not compete with the U.S. companies that swooped in. Her parents migrated north to earn higher wages. Today, economic instability is but one of the reasons that motivate migrants. 'A lot of the Venezuelans are leaving Venezuela because it's a violent, dangerous place, and the government has destroyed the economy in different ways,' Alden said. 'Same thing out of Central America. These are people who aren't necessarily leaving for economic reasons. They're doing it for personal safety reasons.' Reyes said she has Central American students who fled horrors. She wants them to feel safe in the United States, and the fact Los Angeles Unified has pledged not to cooperate with immigration officials voluntarily provides some comfort. Run by a formerly undocumented superintendent, the sanctuary district blocked Homeland Security agents from entering two schools in April. The fear of raids on campuses has traumatized her students, Reyes said. 'It's so difficult to convince my students that they are worthy of love and that they're worthy of respect and that they deserve civil rights.' It is equally difficult to keep advocating for herself, she said. But as the threat of deportation looms, she has no choice but to keep fighting. 'It's hard to know that I can't earn citizenship and that I can't give my kid stability or safety,' she said. 'I feel like if I could earn it, I would have three citizenships. I would have put in the work.'
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08-05-2025
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She's devoted her life to teaching your kids — in a country that now wants to deport her
LOS ANGELES — Scattered among the shrubs on the southern border lie belongings migrants left behind — toothbrushes, water bottles, baseball caps. Some of the owners forged north, crossing the boundary undetected. Others were apprehended or succumbed to dehydration, drowning or one of the unimaginable dangers in the harsh desert that straddles Mexico and the United States. Angélica Reyes survived. At nine months old, she made the journey that could have claimed her life just as it started. Since 1994, approximately 10,000 migrants have died in the borderlands. That year, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect. Designed to open trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, the now-defunct policy has faced criticism for depressing Mexican wages. Their income flatlining, Reyes said, her parents left the city of Guadalajara, in the western part of Mexico, and headed with her to Los Angeles. They did not have authorization to live in the United States. Reyes is now 32, though she remembers knowing she was undocumented as early as first grade. 'My mom was very cognizant of the discrimination and the obstacles that I would face throughout my life,' she said. 'She made it clear, like, 'You can't mess up. You need to be twice as good to get half of the respect. You need to really prove that you earned your spot.'' To do that, Reyes earned the good grades that set her up to become a history teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is one of about 15,000 teachers — and among the more than 835,000 undocumented people — who have received temporary permission to live, work and study in the United States through an Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Women represent over half of DACA recipients, whose future in this country has been under threat by legal challenges to the program's existence and the anti-immigration agenda of President Donald Trump. If DACA ends, the goal of ongoing litigation, 700 education personnel, including teachers and teacher aides, would lose their jobs each month for two years as their work permits are revoked, according to an immigration reform organization. In California, the state with the most DACA recipients, 200 educators would lose their jobs monthly. In Texas, 100 would. DACA-recipient teachers relate firsthand to the estimated 620,000 undocumented K-1 2 students, who confide in them about their experiences in immigrant families. They show youth that regardless of legal status, it's possible to attain one's professional goals. Many of these teachers are also activists, fighting for their students, themselves and other marginalized people. They see themselves as assets to schools. 'My immigration status inspires both my undocumented and documented students because they know all the obstacles that are faced by folks with my immigration status can be overcome,' Reyes said. 'They know that if I could do it, that's something that they could do as well.' Without undocumented teachers, educator shortages across states could worsen. California has spent about $1.6 billion since the 2016-17 school year to tackle its teacher shortage. Still, the state issued 11 percent fewer teaching credentials between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years. Last year, it enacted legislation to eliminate barriers to entry, dropping a standardized test teaching candidates had to pass to demonstrate competence in math, reading and writing. But since undocumented immigrants aren't widely perceived to be career professionals, the fact that schoolchildren nationwide depend on them has received scant attention in the broader immigration debate. Maria Miranda, elementary vice president of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) labor union, said undocumented teachers 'bring a different perspective to the table, a different skill set.' Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the nation's second largest teacher labor union, said DACA recipients in classrooms have strengthened the United States. 'They are role models, like all teachers, and should be treated as such, but instead, they are made to feel uncertain and fearful as their protections are challenged in court and as the Trump administration promotes mass deportations, even from sensitive locations like schools that were once considered off limits,' Weingarten said. 'Immigration reform can't be used as an excuse to rip teachers out of classrooms, where they are so desperately needed.' When Reyes was about to register for the SAT during her senior year in high school, one misinformed guidance counselor asked her why she planned to take the college entrance exam, insisting that higher education was off limits to undocumented students. 'I was devastated. It broke my heart,' Reyes said. 'I remember crying and telling my mom, 'I worked hard, for what?'' Since 2001, however, California has extended access to in-state college tuition to undocumented students who have lived there long term. Unaware of this law and under the assumption that her counselor was correct, Reyes missed the deadline for the SAT and for the application to University of California schools, so she enrolled in a community college she could afford, a common path for many undocumented immigrants. Then, in 2011, a state law was enacted that made her cry tears of gratitude: the California DREAM Act. The policy allows undocumented immigrants who entered the United States before they were 16 to obtain financial aid if they've earned qualifying credits at California schools. These young people have been nicknamed Dreamers after the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a 2001 federal bill that would have given them legal status had it succeeded. Reyes said that when she decided to apply to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a community college counselor took in her light brown skin and wavy black mane and without so much as seeing the 4.0 GPA in her transcript, told her to apply somewhere less competitive. 'I'm a competitive student!' Reyes recalled balking. 'She opened my chart and she was, like, 'Oh, you actually are.' Her tune changed so quickly. It was really infuriating because if I had believed her, like many students believe counselors, I would have not gone to UCLA.' In college, Reyes had to make a choice about her career path. Her research project on youth activism at Abraham Lincoln High School, where she graduated in 2010, had drawn her to education. 'I realized that's where I was needed,' she said. It was at Lincoln High in March 1968 that students spearheaded the protests known as the Chicano Blowouts or East Los Angeles Walkouts. With signs stating 'School Not Prison' and 'We Are Not Dirty Mexicans,' almost 15,000 youth from Lincoln and other schools in historically Mexican-American East L.A. walked out of classes for a week to protest their substandard education. Back then, students could be paddled for speaking Spanish, and with few advanced courses at Eastside schools, they were routinely steered to vocational classes like auto shop. These inequities contributed to a 60 percent dropout rate in the area. Jailed for their activism against these circumstances, the teenagers garnered community support that ushered in sweeping policy changes — bilingual instruction, ethnic studies and more Latino teachers. Today, the carnicerías, bungalow homes and palm trees along North Broadway Avenue, leading to 93 acres of green hills, offer no hint of the past tumult, but a mural at Lincoln commemorates the walkouts of nearly six decades ago. Through her research, which also explored youth activism of the 2010s, Reyes learned that contemporary Lincoln High students continued to have unmet needs, such as support applying for college financial aid or accessing legal services as members of immigrant households. So when Lincoln High teachers asked if she wanted to develop a space to serve students, Reyes threw herself into the effort. The Paula Crisostomo Dream Center — named after a lead activist of the Chicano Blowouts and the inspiration for the 2006 film 'Walkout' — opened at Lincoln in 2015. 'We established programming for immigrant students, for immigrant parents. We did immigrant and educational history,' Reyes said. 'It's still a resource for students at Lincoln, and we've expanded it to several other schools.' Working at the Dream Center for three years convinced her that teaching was the best way to reach undocumented and marginalized youth. Rather than dismiss them, as she had been dismissed by school counselors, she would inspire students to excel academically regardless of legal status. In 2012, four years before she graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in sociology and six years before she earned her master's in education from the university, DACA enabled undocumented students like herself to become career professionals. In 2017, the year Reyes began teaching, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that as many as 20,000 DACA-eligible individuals were involved in education occupations. But today the number of DACA-recipient educators is 25 percent lower as litigation has frozen new applications. It's complicated: Those two words capture Reyes' feelings about DACA. Although the program allowed her to teach, she has long viewed it as flawed, exploitative and a 'constant reminder' she isn't 'fully accepted.' DACA stems from the activism of undocumented college students frustrated that the DREAM Act failed and that their immigration status would limit their potential, said Jennifer R. Nájera, author of 'Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education.' Fighting for immigrant rights, they found a purpose. Like the DREAM Act, DACA was reserved for young people who came to the United States as children and didn't have criminal histories. 'They had to graduate from high school or college or go to the military, show 'good moral character,'' said Nájera, an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Instead of citizenship, Obama's executive order 'provided temporary relief from deportation, a two-year relief specifically, that could be renewed, and a work permit, which was a big deal.' While DACA recipients cherished their professional opportunities, some contended that the policy cast them as second-class citizens, Nájera said. That includes Reyes. 'I knew it was a Band-Aid,' she said. 'In fact, when I first started teaching, my DACA expired because of an issue with the application. They had asked me if I was in a gang, and apparently I didn't check off the X hard enough, so I wasn't hired at the beginning of the year. I remember feeling this immense frustration.' Los Angeles Unified employs about 300 DACA-recipient school personnel, according to Miranda of the UTLA labor union. As Reyes' teaching career started, DACA weathered the first of multiple legal challenges. Trump rescinded the program during his first term, a move the Supreme Court later blocked; at the time, Reyes told her students about possibly losing her job. Since then, she has endured several other threats to DACA , though she's now pained to tell her students that the program isn't accepting new applicants. DACA, she said, must be replaced with a sustainable alternative. In a December interview, Trump said, 'We're going to have to do something with' DACA recipients. 'They were brought into this country many years ago' and 'in many cases, they've become successful.' But that sympathy has been absent from his immigration policies since he resumed office. He has issued an executive order prohibiting undocumented college students from receiving in-state tuition. He has also lifted restrictions on immigration enforcement in 'sensitive locations' such as churches, hospitals and schools, prompting parents nationwide to keep kids out of class. 'A lot of times, the children are U.S. citizens and the parents are concerned,' Reyes said. 'But I've had students who shared that their parents are U.S. citizens, and they're still scared because they know that U.S. citizens are also caught up in these raids. So, this isn't about criminality. It's about the targeting of Brown folks.' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal authorities reportedly detained or deported at least 10 U.S. citizens, including children, in the first 100 days of Trump's second term. Last month, the California state superintendent presented Senate Bill 48 to limit ICE appearances at schools as absences have spiked — and schools could lose millions of dollars since their funding is tied to average daily student attendance. About half of California children belong to families that include at least one immigrant parent, while one in five live in mixed-status families with at least one undocumented parent. 'It's very taxing emotionally for our members and our students,' Miranda said of ICE enforcement. 'We have students at the elementary level who are terrified of seeing anyone in uniform. Some of them are so young that they don't know the difference between the police and immigration. It's a very scary moment.' When Trump targeted DACA during his first term, Reyes warned in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece that disbanding the program could upend public education. But now she says her students deserve more than DACA's 'breadcrumbs.' 'We need to fight for something new because my kids want to be chefs and doctors and lawyers, but they're being held back by their immigration status,' she said. 'It's excruciating in two ways: One, I want my students to have the opportunities that they deserve to serve the community. And, two, I don't know when I'm going to be taken from them because of my own uncertainty.' For now, she knows that her presence makes a difference at her high school. Los Angeles Unified has an immigrant student body of about 30,000 students, according to UTLA. Of those, one in four is undocumented. After Reyes shared her immigration status with students during a recent lunchtime conversation, she said a ninth grader confessed that she planned to quit school because she, too, is undocumented. Learning Reyes managed to become a teacher made the girl reconsider. 'It was really beautiful to see that, like it reignited her hope to have a bright future,' Reyes said. Although the risks of revealing her status frighten her, her conscience compels her to, Reyes said. She quoted Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata: 'It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.' Staying silent as the president attacks immigrants would make it hard for Reyes to face the youth in her life — her son, especially. Whenever a state turned red on Election Night, Nathan Reyes felt his anxiety shoot up. Still, he held out hope Kamala Harris would win. Then the Electoral College math made it plain: Donald Trump would be president again. Although he's a U.S. citizen, Nathan wondered what lay ahead for his undocumented relatives under a president promising mass deportations. 'I feel worried for them because if they get deported, what am I going to do?' he asked. 'Where am I going to stay?' So, he began to plan. He and his family would 'have to pick our poison' — stay in a country hostile to their presence or self-deport together to Mexico regardless of citizenship status. That her son, with a pile of ringlets and a round cherubic face, was even considering these options stunned Reyes. Nathan is in seventh grade. 'I was like, 'Oh, my God, this kid is 12,'' Angélica Reyes said. 'Why is he talking about this?'' Rummaging through a bin of childhood possessions in her mother's bedroom last year, Reyes found a poem she wrote in fourth grade about her fear of police. Her parents were street food vendors, an occupation California criminalized until 2018, so Reyes realized growing up that one brush with the law could have seen them deported. Just as she did not have a childhood free of deportation fears, neither has her son. Nathan, now 13, is hardly the only youth pondering the possibility of a relative's departure, according to Lisette Sanchez, a psychologist in Long Beach, California. She said children are leaving school with 'Know Your Rights' cards advising them of their civil liberties during ICE encounters, but they may not understand the information. 'They're just feeling fear,' she said. 'They're being told something's gonna happen. So mental health wise, you're looking at chronic anxiety. You're looking at hypervigilance.' To gain some sense of control, they may overconsume social media, leading to racing thoughts, rapid heart rate and sleeping difficulties. 'It's this chronic nonstop anxiety because the state of uncertainty feels never-ending, and in many ways, it is not ending, right?' Sanchez said. 'There's different news every day.' By speaking openly with children, parents can help them better manage stress, she said. Teachers, if they're permitted, can broach the topic of immigration. Nathan appreciated how his Spanish teacher led a class discussion after the election. 'Sharing your feelings and emotions and finding that a lot of other people are feeling very similar can bring comfort to you,' he said. Reyes gave birth to her son while she was in college and briefly wed to his father. She applied for legal status as an immediate family member of a U.S. citizen, her spouse. But years passed before the federal government responded to her request, she said. By then, her marriage had ended. 'I don't think people understand how long the path to citizenship can be, what it looks like, how costly and time-intensive it is,' Sanchez said. Reyes, who has not remarried, said being undocumented seeps into every aspect of her life, including romantic relationships. She feels obligated to tell prospective partners about her status. 'I remember to always be upfront, like, 'Hey, I'm undocumented. I don't want you to think I'm going to use you for papers,'' she said. Reyes lives in one of the country's 4.7 million mixed-status households, which include undocumented individuals and people with legal status or U.S. citizenship. If she gets deported, she has arranged for others to care for her son. Her sister, two years younger, is a U.S. citizen. Asked if she resents that twist of fate, Reyes said, 'I'm happy that she gets to be safe. I think that there's a lot of pain and guilt for her.' Her sister realizes, Reyes said, that her entire family could be taken away. Should she be forced out of the only country she considers home, Reyes wants her son to know this: 'I would never willingly leave you. I am dedicated to you. I love you, and I will always be working as hard as possible to get back to you.' For Nathan, it is mind-boggling that anyone would want his mother out. He doesn't understand why politicians demonize immigrants. Trump launched his first presidential campaign calling them criminals and continues to malign them. 'My mom has done a lot of good for her community,' Nathan said. 'She has organized a finders keepers closet where people who don't have some resources they need, like canned food or clothes, can take what they need.' Just as Nathan defends her honor, Reyes vouches for her parents. Her mother is now a nail technician and her father is a food vendor. Growing up, she said, she watched them visit the sick, volunteer at churches and fundraise for the poor. 'Whenever they saw a need, they stepped up, and they didn't wait for someone else to help,' she said. She's hurt when people sympathize with Dreamers while disparaging their parents, that the immigration system paints family members as saints or sinners. The DACA recipients she's researched feel similarly, Nájera said. 'Many of the students that I interviewed were always talking about their parents,' Nájera said. 'They did not want their stories to be divorced from their parents and their family stories. These families, they're units.' But the Dream Act caused a migrant generational divide, insinuating that those who arrived in this country as children deserve citizenship, while their parents and others who arrived as adults do not, Nájera said. Migration often occurs out of necessity. For example, after NAFTA took effect in 1994, U.S. agricultural exports flooded Mexico, displacing workers, according to Edward Alden, a distinguished visiting professor in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. Four years earlier, over 4 million Mexican migrants were in the United States, a figure that ballooned to nearly 13 million — around 9 percent of Mexico's population — by 2008. Reyes said NAFTA crushed the bakery business her father's side of the family owned because it could not compete with the U.S. companies that swooped in. Her parents migrated north to earn higher wages. Today, economic instability is but one of the reasons that motivate migrants. 'A lot of the Venezuelans are leaving Venezuela because it's a violent, dangerous place, and the government has destroyed the economy in different ways,' Alden said. 'Same thing out of Central America. These are people who aren't necessarily leaving for economic reasons. They're doing it for personal safety reasons.' Reyes said she has Central American students who fled horrors. She wants them to feel safe in the United States, and the fact Los Angeles Unified has pledged not to cooperate with immigration officials voluntarily provides some comfort. Run by a formerly undocumented superintendent, the sanctuary district blocked Homeland Security agents from entering two schools in April. The fear of raids on campuses has traumatized her students, Reyes said. 'It's so difficult to convince my students that they are worthy of love and that they're worthy of respect and that they deserve civil rights.' It is equally difficult to keep advocating for herself, she said. But as the threat of deportation looms, she has no choice but to keep fighting. 'It's hard to know that I can't earn citizenship and that I can't give my kid stability or safety,' she said. 'I feel like if I could earn it, I would have three citizenships. I would have put in the work.' 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Axios
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Scoop: Democrats urged to ditch immigration message after Biden failures
Senate Democrats were given a blunt message in a private briefing on Wednesday about the urgent need to overhaul their immigration agenda. Why it matters: Democrats know they lost badly on immigration in 2024, even as they see signs of declining support for President Trump's draconian immigration measures. Democrats were told that former President Biden's failure to control the border drove voters to support Trump's vision for immigration, according to sources familiar with the meeting. The lawmakers were encouraged to ditch their longtime message of "comprehensive immigration reform." Senate Democrats were briefed by Andrea Flores, a top staffer with the bipartisan political organization, at their policy retreat in Virginia. Zoom in: The unsparing briefing criticized the Biden administration for not articulating a vision for immigration reform in the belief that talking about it would only help Republicans. Biden's border strategy further alienated Latino voters who'd waited for decades for a path to legalization, the briefing argued, while new arrivals quickly received work permits. Senators were urged to focus on reducing border crossings, as well as increasing legal pathways to citizenship, reforming the asylum system and expanding access to humanitarian aid outside of the U.S. Flores left the Biden White House after its first year and became a public critic of its handling of the border. Between the lines: Support for Trump's immigration policies has dropped dramatically, the lawmakers were told.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Panel seeks ‘Better Way Forward' on immigration
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, and other local leaders took part in a panel discussion on Monday, March 17 about border security and migration. Escobar joined with County Attorney Christina Sanchez, the El Paso Community Foundation and local immigration advocates to discuss an initiative called 'A Better Way Forward.' The event was held at the El Paso Community Foundation's headquarters in Downtown El Paso. The event was spearheaded by which bills itself as a bipartisan political organization seeking immigration reform. The policy initiative is being developed by Andrea Flores, a Las Cruces native and vice president of immigration policy and campaigns for the group. 'The framework presents new and practical recommendations for policymakers to reimagine border security and reduce unauthorized migration,' according to a news release sent out by the group. 'During the panel, the panelists will discuss the need for Congress to enact a proactive policy response to create an immigration system that secures the border, modernizes the asylum system, and creates new legal pathways for immigrants,' the news release said. The initiative highlights six major policy interventions: Reduce irregular cross-border movement in the region Expand access to humanitarian and labor pathways closer to countries of origin Increase legal pathways to the United States Modernize border security infrastructure and asylum processing Reform the U.S. asylum system Develop a federal resettlement process for asylum seekers Here is a link to the policy paper that was discussed at the panel. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Politico
20-02-2025
- Business
- Politico
Medicare group hits K Street for cover
Presented by With Dana Nickel, Caitlin Oprysko, Daniel Lippman ALL EYES ON MEDICARE: Medicare Advantage is continuing to bulk up its lobbying efforts, with the Better Medicare Alliance finding itself among 10 new clients signed by Squire Patton Boggs. — The addition of Better Medicare Alliance builds on the increased lobbying push behind Medicare Advantage — the privately run alternative to Medicaid — as privatizing Medicare sees increased support from the Trump administration. — Better Medicare Alliance sent a letter today from more than 100 groups urging acting CMS Administrator and chief of staff Stephanie Carlton to protect and strengthen Medicare Advantage for seniors. — On Wednesday, President Donald Trump endorsed a House budget plan that would gut Medicaid and hinted at the possibility of changing certain elements of Medicare. Elon Musk and his DOGE team have also been eyeing Medicare payments as a route for potential budget cuts. — Other recent registrations to SPB include Heineken USA; Leidos; American Roads; Association for Accessible Medicines; Autos Drive America; Becton, Dickinson & Company; IPC International and Vertiv Group Corporation. — 'The policy changes introduced by President Trump and his administration are unparalleled and present opportunities and challenges for clients across various industries, both domestically and internationally,' Ed Newberry, global managing partner for public policy and regulatory solutions for SPB, said. 'In this historically dynamic period, we are seeing a wide range of organizations recognizing that it is imperative to assess how decisions in Washington D.C. influence their operations and to formulate appropriate responses. These new registrations are a reflection of our team's strong connections and our legal and industry specific expertise.' MOVING FORWARD: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan's for-profit charity, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, announced to employees it's ending all diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, including initiatives on immigration reform and racial equity. What this means for the pro-immigration advocacy group founded by Zuckerberg, is unclear. — Zuckerberg has a somewhat complicated relationship with the Trump administration. criticized Trump on his immigration views during his campaign in 2016, then pivoting to donate $5,000 to his presidential transition. Now, Zuckerberg seems to be leaning right, embracing Trump and Musk's 'free speech' agenda through ending Meta's third-party fact checking program and halting DEI efforts at Facebook's parent company. — The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative pledged $100 million to in 2021, moving its immigration portfolio over to the group to assist in immigration reform over a three-year period. — and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative did not respond to requests for comment. Happy Thursday and welcome to PI. I'm excited to be helming the newsletter for the next few days while Caitlin is out. For coffee recs, gossip and tips, reach out: klong@ And be sure to follow all of us on X: @katherinealong and @caitlinoprysko. COMING TODAY: Trump's unprecedented effort to reshape the federal government is consuming Washington. POLITICO is going to be your guide to all the key decisions and characters with a fresh version of one of our signature newsletters — West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government. Sign up here to get it straight in your inbox. FLORIDIANS ARRIVES EN MASSE: The most coveted credential on K Street these days is a tie to the Sunshine State. As the administration fills a number of top-tier positions with Floridians, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, lobbying firms are prioritizing the hiring of well-connected lobbyists in Florida, our Kimberly Leonard writes. — As PI readers will know well, Continental Strategy and Ballard Partners are two of the Florida-linked shops who have seen the biggest boon since Trump's victory in November — with each bringing in dozens of new clients and staffing their firms with Trump-aligned figures. Others on the ascent include Rubin, Turnbull & Associates and The Southern Group. — 'Everybody's getting an offer from a lobbying firm up here that's trying to make the Florida connection,' said prominent Tallahassee attorney and lobbyist Dave Ramba, speaking to POLITICO in Washington during a sold-out Republican Party of Florida inauguration gala. 'Anybody that's got 10, 15, 20 years in Florida politics,' he added, 'their Rolodex is already filled.' — 'Lobbyists and their clients see policy issues that have been big in Florida cropping up nationally. Trump aims to end diversity, equity and inclusion in government hiring practices? So does Florida. Trump wants to ban transgender athletes from women and girls' sports? Happened in Florida almost four years ago.' — 'Capital City Consulting owner and founder Nick Iarossi — who is based in Tallahassee and just expanded into Washington as managing director of BGR Group — said last week he was sitting in the lobby of the West Wing with clients ahead of meetings and bumped into several senior officials from Florida, including Bondi. 'It was almost like you picked up Florida and placed it in the White House,' he said, adding that it was a 'wild' experience but also that Florida was 'getting its due.'' NEW GROUP ALERT: Liliana Coronado is launching government affairs and litigation group Parzival Group. The firm will focus on corrections and criminal justice policy and advise on improvements to the justice system with offices in Washington and Los Angeles. — The move follows Coronado's decadelong stint at the Brimley Group, where she was vice president and counsel. Prior to her time at the Brimley Group, she worked in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and served as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. The Brimley Group and Parzival Group plan to work in coordination on criminal justice policy. — 'For the past nine years, Liliana has been an invaluable leader as Vice President of the Brimley Group, driving bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation and innovation, from her work on the First Step Act, Second Chance Reentry legislation, and the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act,' said Jessica Nickel, president of the Brimley Group. 'As she embarks on this exciting new chapter, we are thrilled to continue our strong relationship and look forward to a successful partnership between our firms.' MORE MEDICAID MOVES: The Catholic Health Association is set to chair the Partnership for Medicaid — a nonpartisan coalition that represents health care providers, counties, clinicians and safety-net health plans — as congressional Republicans propose sweeping cuts to the program. — CHA Senior Director for Government Relations Paulo Pontemayor will represent the organization on the coalition. — Roughly 79 million people are enrolled in Medicaid and its related Children's Health Insurance Program. The religious organization has long supported the expansion of Medicaid — which puts it at odds with Trump, who won the Catholic vote last year but has endorsed sharp cuts to the program. — 'CHA looks forward to working with this coalition on shared priorities that advocate for policies that enhance access to care and improve health outcomes,' the group said in a statement. 'We will continue to share stories of the vital role that hospitals, health systems, clinics, and long-term care facilities have in serving patients and communities.' SPOTTED Wednesday night at a National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraising dinner hosted by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, per a tipster: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), NRSC Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Curtis (R-Utah), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jon Husted (R-Ohio), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), David McCormick (R-Pa.), Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.); Norm Brownstein, Ed Royce, Will Moschella, Brandt Anderson, Rosemary Becchi, Geoff Burr, Samantha Carl-Yoder, David Cohen, Samantha Corbin, Steve Demby, Leah Dempsey, Emily Felder, Lauren Flynn, Brady Howell, Jon Hrobsky, Charlie Iovino, Joe Jaso, Luke Johnson, Greta Joynes, Melissa Kuipers Blake, Marc Lampkin, Doug Maguire, Elizabeth Maier, Brian McGuire, Tripp McKemey, Lauren Mish, Bart Reising, Preston Rutledge, Adam Steinmetz, Jon Towers, Mark Warren, and Beth White. Jobs report — David Laufman has joined Caplan & Drysdale as senior counsel in the firm's Political Law group. Laufman most recently was a partner at Wiggin and Dana and previously served as chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control section of the Justice Department's National Security Division. — Albert Bourla, CEO and chair of Pfizer, is now chair of the PhRMA board of directors. Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson is board chair-elect, and Merck CEO Robert Davis is treasurer, per Morning Pulse. — David Ferris is Cohere's new head of global public sector. He was most recently principal at Pallas Advisors, focusing on tech integrations within national security, per Morning Tech. — Stephen Bell has been promoted to senior vice president of communications at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. He has spent over a decade at NRECA, previously serving as vice president of advocacy, press and member connections. — Stephen Neuman has been promoted to be SVP and global head of government affairs at American Airlines. He previously served as managing director. — Rachel Reisner is joining Platform Communications as director of public relations. Reisner previously served as director of national communications for the Republican National Committee and handled regional and battleground communications for the Trump 2024 campaign. — Former Taft Stettinius & Hollister partner Sohan Dasgupta is making his return to the Department of Homeland Security, which has tapped him to serve as assistant secretary for trade and economic security. In his previous government stint he served as the deputy general counsel for DHS and special counsel for the Education Department. — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has added a handful of new staff members, a majority of whom are HUD alumni. Kasey Lovett, previously at JPMorganChase, makes her return to the department as head of public affairs. Jacklyn Ward, press communications manager for former Secretary Ben Carson at the American Cornerstone Institute, also rejoins HUD as press secretary. The department also hired Samantha Seal as press assistant. Seal most recently worked at the America First Policy Institute as strategic communications coordinator for former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf. New Joint Fundraisers Pramila's Progressive Power PAC (Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Build Our Movement PAC, Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC) Van Hollen Ossoff Victory Fund (Sens. Chris Van Hollen, Jon Ossoff) New PACs Citizens for Better Communities (Super PAC) IHS Civic Action Now PAC (Super PAC) Mother Funders PAC (Hybrid PAC) The Voter Mobilization Project (PAC) New Lobbying REGISTRATIONS Ajw, Inc.: Renewable Fuels Association Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Sustana Group Inc. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: US Chamber Of Commerce Arentfox Schiff LLP: American Electric Power Company, Inc. Axadvocacy Government Relations: Public Properties LLC Bockorny Group, Inc.: Cvs Health Inc Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: Faire Wholesale, Inc. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: Fh Cann & Associates, Inc. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: Havocai Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: Protect Coalition Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: Skillful Communications, Inc. Dba Big Interview Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: The Nuclear Company Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: University Of Health & Performance Freeman Mathis Decisions: Braves Holdings, LLC Greenberg Traurig, LLP: Vistra Corp. Green Mountain Strategies LLC Dc: Lifecenter Northwest Hb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies): Promontory 150 LLC Ice Miller Strategies LLC: Tulsa Innovation Labs Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough: Business Council Of Canada Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough: Lig Nex1 Co., Ltd. Pennsylvania Energy Resources Group, LLC: West View Water Authority Pennsylvania Energy Resources Group, LLC: Wilkinsburg-Penn Joint Water Authority Quill Advisers LLC: Shanda Asset Management LLC River Public Affairs Group: Mith-Ih-Kwuh Economic Development Corporation River Public Affairs Group: National Mobile Shower And Catering Association River Public Affairs Group: National Wildfire Suppression Association River Public Affairs Group: Salem Media Group River Public Affairs Group: Wildfire Water Solutions Rulon & White Governance Strategies: Veritaseum Inc., Ryan Costello Strategies: Centerline Action Scissortail Strategic Consulting Partners LLC: Capcventures LLC On Behalf Of Tcom Lp Skyline Capitol LLC: Gregory Ingram Skyline Capitol LLC: Seek Labs, Inc. Squire Patton Boggs: American Roads Squire Patton Boggs: Arapahoe County, Colorado Squire Patton Boggs: Association For Accessible Medicines Squire Patton Boggs: Autos Drive America Squire Patton Boggs: Becton, Dickinson And Company Squire Patton Boggs: Better Medicare Alliance Squire Patton Boggs: Heineken USa Squire Patton Boggs: Ipc International, Inc. Squire Patton Boggs: Leidos Inc. Squire Patton Boggs: Vertiv Group Corporation Steptoe LLP: Exxonmobil The Bridge Advisory Group: Sign In Solutions Thorn Run Partners: Boom Technology, Inc. Twinlogic Strategies, LLP: Network Advertising Initiative New Lobbying Terminations Ark Strategy: Evolution Space, Inc. Krl International LLC: Symbion Power Services Washington Alliance Group: America'S Vetdogs
