Founded in 2009, DREAM Team Los Angeles (DTLA) aims to create a safe space in which undocumented immigrants from the community and allies empower themselves through activism and life stories. Through these shared experiences, individuals develop as efficient advocates for their own rights and those of the larger immigrant community. DTLA is a grass roots organization that welcomes anyone who is interested in being part of the work, both in L.A. and nationally; we do as part of the immigrants rights movement.

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PRESS STATEMENT: Response to President Trump’s “not a Muslim” Travel Ban

ICE Arrested a Father of Four as He Dropped His Kids off at School

Original Story at ATTN.com http://www.attn.com/stories/15348/father-detained-ice-infront-his-kids March 2, 2017 by: Thor Benson A 48-year-old father named Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angel...

Full Text of DREAM Team LA’s Response to President Trump’s First Joint Congressional Address

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 1, 2017 DREAM Team Los Angeles' Response to President Trump's Joint Congressional Address Yesterday, President Trump addressed a joint session of congress, discussing immigration among other topics. And, unfortunately for t...

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Opinion: Trump Conflates and Confuses Many Things with Immigration Remarks

Posted on March 18, 2017March 18, 2017 by Kevin Solis

March 18, 2017 By: Kevin Solis President Donald Trump met with German Chancellor Merkel, and during a joint press conference he once again opened up his remarks on immigration by citing negative imagery with his three favorite words, “Radical. Islamic. Terrorism.” Words he always pronounces slowly, taking great pause between them to emphasize “Islamic” and “Terrorism” so that you know they are separate but linked in a common theme to remind you, you are in a war with a religion. That, or he ...

US Immigrants in Los Angeles Fear of Trump’s Chasers

Posted on March 17, 2017March 23, 2017 by Media

DREAM Team LA activists sat down with Der Spiegel, Germany's top news agency, to talk about the undocumented realities under President Trump. Originally published in Spiegel Online http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/donald-trump-versetzt-einwanderer-in-angst-das-sagen-menschen-in-los-angeles-a-1138304.html {Translated from German} US immigrants in Los Angeles fear of Trump's Chasers Raids, mass arrests, deportations: Knallhart is implementing Donald Trump's immigration policy. Ma...

PRESS STATEMENT: Response to President Trump’s “not a Muslim” Travel Ban

Posted on March 6, 2017March 23, 2017 by Media

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2017 Contact: media@dreamteamla.org Response to President Trump's "not a Muslim" Travel Ban The President has just reissued his “not a Muslim” Travel Ban executive order. It now includes just six nations, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya. These six nations have something in common. They are majority Muslim. And we have bombed all six.   How willing would Attorney General Jeff Session, or Secretary of Homeland Security, John F. Kelly be willin...