MSU Student Organization Leaders Inform Students On DACA Program

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Mississippi State student leaders are voicing their concerns about President Trump’s move to end a program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Several student organizations hosted a Q & A session about the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” or DACA program.

Organizers say they were discouraged when they heard the change could affect almost one million people and wanted to take some sort of action.

As early as March, hundreds of thousands of young adults brought to the United States illegally as children, may become eligible for deportation.

The goal of Friday’s event is to educate students on what DACA actually is and offer support to those affected by the policy change.

“I believe a lot of students do not know what it consists of because a lot of them just kind of watch the news and news outlets and they don’t really do a lot of research and it’s a lot that goes into DACA besides just immigration,” says MSU Black Student Association Executive Director of Programming, Marsei Hogan.

“We don’t have to know who is who and who is on the program, but this big group of students and faculty shows the support, so even if we never know who they are, they know who we are and they know that we are here supporting them,” says Dawgs for DACA President, Sarah Gresham Barr.

Students were also collecting signatures for a petition to send to legislators to work on a bipartisan bill on DACA.

Their goal is to reach 500 signatures.