{"id":36010,"date":"2017-12-07T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=36010"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:25:23","slug":"watch-emu-dacamented-student-keyri-lopez-godoy-calls-dream-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/watch-emu-dacamented-student-keyri-lopez-godoy-calls-dream-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: EMU DACAmented student Keyri Lopez-Godoy calls for DREAM Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For at least one Eastern Mennonite University student in particular, the Wednesday, Dec. 6 march in Harrisonburg from the city hall to Representative Bob Goodlatte\u2019s office was for a deeply personal cause: a means of permanent legal residency here in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Keyri Lopez-Godoy has lived in the U.S. since moving to Charlottesville from El Salvador when she was age eight. She will graduate in the spring with a degree in elementary education.<\/p>\n<p>She was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsv.com\/video?vid=462159683\">interviewed<\/a> about her experiences and advocacy work the day before the march by WHSV&#8217;s Bob Corso.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">WATCH Keryi Lopez-Godoy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsv.com\/video?vid=462159683\">interview with Bob Corso<\/a>.<\/aside>\n<p>Lopez-Godoy\u2019s status as a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program expires in 2019. The program was ended by President Donald Trump in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s rally and march, led by Virginia Organizing, was in support of the proposed DREAM Act, and Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for foreign workers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36015\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/12\/watch-emu-dacamented-student-keyri-lopez-godoy-calls-dream-act\/keyri2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36015\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Keyri2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Keyri2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Keyri2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Keyri2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marchers in downtown Harrisonburg, Virginia, on Dec. 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The DREAM Act would be a permanent solution for Lopez-Godoy and the estimated 800,000 other residents able to work and study in the U.S. legally due to the DACA program. TPS, which Trump has begun lifting, has protected some 300,000 workers.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez-Godoy and other EMU students formed the campus\u2019s DACA Dialogue Planning Committee after Trump\u2019s decision to end the program. The group has hosted several advocacy events. Lopez-Godoy has spoken publically about her experiences in a <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2017\/10\/06\/dacamented-stories-and-prayer\/\">chapel service<\/a>, and as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/11\/daca-campus-committee-hosts-outdoor-story-exhibit-continues-advocacy\/\">story exhibit<\/a> on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m scared,\u201d she said in an interview earlier this semester, \u201cbut the overall emotion that I have after DACA was ended is a lot of hope and faith, that if God has carried me this far, then he will carry me through whatever else it is to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsv.com\/content\/news\/Harrisonburg-rallies-for-dreamers-462445213.html\">WHSV\u2019s coverage<\/a> of the rally and march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For at least one Eastern Mennonite University student in particular, the Wednesday, Dec. 6 march in Harrisonburg from the city hall to Representative Bob Goodlatte\u2019s office was for a deeply <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/watch-emu-dacamented-student-keyri-lopez-godoy-calls-dream-act\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Watch: EMU DACAmented student Keyri Lopez-Godoy calls for DREAM Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,17562,5594,14145,6287,14139],"tags":[6795],"feature":[17427,17426,17241,17422],"class_list":["post-36010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applied-social-sciences","category-digest","category-education","category-peacebuilding-and-development","category-social-work","category-student-profiles","tag-diversity","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature","feature-news-landing-page-main-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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