They keep telling us to wait.  But we can’t wait.  We won’t wait.  We can’t afford to lose another human to an unjust law that shatters his dreams and scars his wrists.  Just two weeks ago, we were able to halt (yet again) the deportation of two outstanding students and leaders in our community, the Reyes brothers – but countless others have fallen through the cracks of the (too many) holes that exist in the colander that is our immigration system.

We can’t afford to lose another classmate, father, mother, uncle, aunt, son, daughter, lover, friend, to a system that disappears people over night and leaves our community in agony and despair.  We can’t afford to live in fear anymore and be frozen by the antagonizing ICE. This year, our new year’s resolutions to the Obama administration and Congress will not be “asks,” but rather, demands…
On January 1^st a team of dedicated leaders and passionate individuals from Students Working for Equal Rights (S.W.E.R.) will depart from Miami’s “Freedom Tower” to commence their four-month “Trail of DREAMs” walk to Washington D.C., passing through St. Augustine, Florida, a battleground for the civil rights movement, and numerous other key cities and locations, thus escalating the movement for reform with non-violent direct action. We will share our stories, our experiences, our agonies, our dreams, with all of those that will listen in the 2000 mile trail, uniting ALL of those human beings that want the change we were promised delivered NOW.

WE DEMAND that our President, Barack Obama stop the separation of families and deportation of DREAMers.

WE SUPPORT just and humane immigration reform that includes equal access to education, an end to the separation of families, worker’s rights, and a pathway to citizenship.

In solidarity with the “Trail of DREAMs,” another team of brave and dedicated individuals (farm workers in ankle bracelets whose families have been devastated and children left parent-less by our broken system) will hold a sustained fast in an astounding effort to increase the much needed urgency for the passage of fair and humane immigration reform our families are in desperate need of.

Learn more about S.W.E.R. and the Florida Immigration Coalition, and how you can help here

We are ready to escalate and make our DREAMs a reality. Are you? What’s your “Trail of DREAMs”?