Quote of the Day 11/21/2016

“One young man, a junior in his third year at one of our universities, came to me and said, ‘After I’ve done all this work, if they decide not to renew my DACA, I’ll be out of a degree? Those are the types of kids that are living in fear now.”

-Raul Font, president of the Latino Community Development Agency in Oklahoma City, speaking about immigrant students who were brought to the U.S. as children and have been allowed to stay under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which is threatened by President-elect Trump (Source).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gene Perry worked for OK Policy from 2011 to 2019. He is a native Oklahoman and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in history and an M.A. in journalism.

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