Sen. Bernie Sanders' new deputy national press secretary likely won't be eligible to vote in the 2020 election due to what she says is her status as an undocumented immigrant.
The hiring of Belen Sisa, an Arizona leftist activist, was announced Wednesday evening. Sisa, who says she was brought to this country illegally from Argentina by her parents at age six, is currently protected from deportation under President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
Despite her immigration status, Sisa has remained active in liberal politics over the years. In 2016, she worked as a page to the Arizona delegation at the Democratic National Convention and in Latino outreach for Sanders' 2016 campaign.
"For someone who was so scared of participating in anything, and coming out and doing this, it’s pretty hard to believe I’m standing in the middle of it all,†she said at the time.
Sisa soon lost her fear of participation. She has been arrested at least twice for protests throughout her activist career. As a college senior in 2017, she was jailed for her role in a sit-in outside of Sen. Chuck Schumer's, D-N.Y., office. While in jail, Sisa told reporters that she organized a "prison strike."
Just weeks before that, she was arrested for a protest outside the Senate Hart Office Building. Both protests were over immigration reform and a demand that Congress pass the DREAM Act — a bill that would permanently legalize children who were brought into the country illegally — "cleanly," without extraneous provisions.
"She's so brave," Sisa's mother said at the time. "DACA is expiring every day. Hers is going to expire in one year and what are we going to do with all of these youth? Congress has to pass the DREAM Act.
In what fucking reality do we live in that people think this is ok? Can you imagine just up and moving to another country in flagrant violation of their laws and then getting involved in their political process for your personal gain?
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."
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>U.S. Code
>Title 8. ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
>Chapter 12. IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
>Subchapter II. IMMIGRATION
>Part VIII. General Penalty Provisions
>Section 1324a. Unlawful employment of aliens
8 U.S. Code § 1324a. Unlawful employment of aliens
(a) Making employment of unauthorized aliens unlawful
(1) In general It is unlawful for a person or other entity—
(A) to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to such employment, . . .
(e) Compliance
(1) Complaints and investigations The Attorney General shall establish procedures—
(A) for individuals and entities to file written, signed complaints respecting potential violations of subsection (a) or (g)(1),
(B) for the investigation of those complaints which, on their face, have a substantial probability of validity,
(C) for the investigation of such other violations of subsection (a) or (g)(1) as the Attorney General determines to be appropriate, and
(D) for the designation in the Service of a unit which has, as its primary duty, the prosecution of cases of violations of subsection (a) or (g)(1) under this subsection.
TACC wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:44 pm
But is someone going to drop the hammer on them, and then put up with being called every word the Democrats like to use, racist, xenophobic, et al
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DACA or not, it's still against Federal law to employ an illegal. DACA just stops her from being deported for the moment.
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."
TACC wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:44 pm
But is someone going to drop the hammer on them, and then put up with being called every word the Democrats like to use, racist, xenophobic, et al
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DACA or not, it's still against Federal law to employ an illegal. DACA just stops her from being deported for the moment.
TACC wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:44 pm
But is someone going to drop the hammer on them, and then put up with being called every word the Democrats like to use, racist, xenophobic, et al
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DACA or not, it's still against Federal law to employ an illegal. DACA just stops her from being deported for the moment.
What about a social security card, drivers licence ect....enough documentation to ILLEGALLY VOTE
RANGER AIRBORNE, BLACK TEAM, FIREMEDIC, NRA BENEFACTOR In the Government's/Elitist eye's I'm a Terrorist for believing in the Constitution and taking an oath to defend it instead of POLITICAL LEADERS
TACC wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:44 pm
But is someone going to drop the hammer on them, and then put up with being called every word the Democrats like to use, racist, xenophobic, et al
Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk
DACA or not, it's still against Federal law to employ an illegal. DACA just stops her from being deported for the moment.
