Dreamers Kick-off Next Phase of Immigration Campaign

Members of United We Dream said Tuesday they plan to focus the next phase of  their national immigration reform campaign on highlighting the impact that the  nation’s broken immigration system is having on immigrant families.

“With 1,100 people being deported every day and millions of families living  in constant fear of being torn apart, the crisis in our nation has never been  more acute,” stated members of UWD.

Naira Zapata was there to support immigration reform.  She spoke about her husband, who is detained and could be deported.  (VOXXI/Griselda Nevarez)

Members of  UWD launched the next phase of their campaign, which is  dubbed “11 Million Dreams,” outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement  office in Phoenix. They were joined by two immigrant families who are fighting  to stop the deportation of their relatives.

Among them was Naira Zapata, whose husband, Ardani Rosales Lemons, was pulled  over while driving on his way to work on December 2012 and has been detained  ever since.

Zapata said her husband fled Guatemala in 2005 and headed to Arizona after  being targeted for his work to keep youth out of gangs. The couple has two U.S.  born children, including a newborn child whom Rosales Lemons has not been able  to meet.

“There are millions of families going through what I am going through,”  Zapata said. “I ask Congress to help stop this. Stop deporting our  families.”

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