Presidential Groundbreaking

Thanks @RobinRoberts for chatting all things Obama Presidential Center on @GMA, and helping @BarackObama surprise members of Chicago Women in Trades before we break ground later today! https://t.co/Qw2UZRDzP9

— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) September 28, 2021

DACA: 9 Years

On the ninth anniversary of DACA, I’m thinking about all the brave DREAMers who have stepped forward to tell their stories. They have fueled a movement that is still working to guarantee the permanent protections they deserve. I will always be inspired by their fight. pic.twitter.com/YrVuuVTrrE

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 15, 2021

Changes, They Are Aaah-Coming

Direct cash payments.
Extended unemployment.
Rent relief.
Food assistance.
Aid to small businesses.
Keeping essential frontline workers on the job.

Those are the key elements of my American Rescue Plan.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 15, 2021

Biden including a $15 minimum wage in his stimulus plan is huge

Biden moving to abolish the tipped minimum wage and sub-minimum wage for people with disabilities in his stimulus package is even bigger IMO

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

The bar and restaurant industry has been gutted this last year. Making it so that when its safe for those people to go back to work that they can make an actual living wage instead of hoping their customers aren’t jerks is exactly what they deserve

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

Honestly, I don’t know how anyone can know someone who’s been on waitstaff or bar staff and NOT be in favor of getting rid of the tipped minimum wage

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

Also: if you’re a person who tips now and say you will stop once people make the actual minimum wage even without tips? Why? Why would you suddenly think “well, I guess they no longer did the exact same thing that would have gotten them a tip before”?

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 15, 2021

On 1st day, Biden will rescind travel ban on several Muslim countries, rejoin Paris climate accord, extend pandemic limits on evictions and student loan payments, and order agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families at border. https://t.co/bPj007bw2w

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 16, 2021

A special edition of The Washington Post was on my doorstep this morning. I’m framing this. 💙💙💙 #InaugurationDay pic.twitter.com/oZofqyzyhq

— Brad Beauregard Jr 🇺🇸 (@BradBeauregardJ) January 20, 2021

I’m here today because of the women who came before me. pic.twitter.com/ctB9qGJqqp

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 20, 2021

Welp. https://t.co/HMXbMI0bP0

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 20, 2021

Biden Day One executive actions:

Re-engage WHO
Unified fed COVID response
Extend eviction & foreclosure moratoriums
Extend student loan pause
Rejoin Paris Agreement
Roll back Trump environmental actions
Reverse Trump census order
Reverse Muslim ban
Stop border wall construction

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 20, 2021

Defend DREAMERS

Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation. Today, I'm happy for them, their families, and all of us. We may look different and come from everywhere, but what makes us American are our shared ideals…

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

...and now to stand up for those ideals, we have to move forward and elect @JoeBiden and a Democratic Congress that does its job, protects DREAMers, and finally creates a system that’s truly worthy of this nation of immigrants once and for all.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

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“It makes you feel like a human being."

In 2012 President Obama implemented DACA, which was the subject of a ruling by the Supreme Court today. Listen to Jaime Rangel, an undocumented American, describe what receiving his DACA letter meant to him.https://t.co/hMiaNYYpj5

— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 18, 2020

DACA: Americans In Every Way

BREAKING: US Supreme Court rules Trump admin. cannot end DACA.https://t.co/sejxU3qndv

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 18, 2020

From 2015, President Obama shows a group of #Dreamers the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. #YesWeCan pic.twitter.com/1Q24vFtgUm

— meta (@metaquest) June 18, 2020

Americans In Every Way

Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are risking their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic. They deserve permanent immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they are Americans in every way but on paper. https://t.co/e4IYqX3WIy

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 13, 2020

#FamiliesBelongTogether

A round of “shames” at Foley Square directed at ICE headquarters. #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/FqPzeZcYhn

— Jason Rosenberg (@mynameisjro) June 30, 2018

If you are attending a #FamiliesBelongTogether rally today, know your rights via @ACLU #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/dTwe5g9oWz

— Families Belong Together (@fams2gether) June 30, 2018

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Watch Here and Here

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https://twitter.com/KassandraSeven/status/1013049682505949185

Please don’t confuse being a peace maker with being passive or confuse practicing nonviolence with promoting normalization of inhumanity. True peace includes justice; and nonviolence is strategic and active in cultivating what is just and humane. pic.twitter.com/jJL3DCm7JL

— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (@TheKingCenter) June 30, 2018

More Ways To Help

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1009894851792515072

We Should All Care

Well said,@NYMag pic.twitter.com/ZmAKAHr0Tf

— Maggie Jordan 🟧 (reader of banned books) (@MaggieJordanACN) June 21, 2018

It is shockingly difficult for immigration attorneys to locate children separated from their parents at the border. Today I spoke to lawyers who represent more than 400 parents. They've located two children.

— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 22, 2018

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Some of the bureaucratic failures are remarkable: Border Patrol agents who forgot to note that a child crossed the border with a parent. Mothers who were never given the toll-free phone number where they can ask about their kids.

— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 22, 2018

In other cases, children are transferred from one shelter to another, and the new facilities don't make note that the child was separated from a parent. Meaning they could be mistakenly considered an unaccompanied minor.

— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 22, 2018

What Kind Of Nation Are We?

Former President Obama on #WorldRefugeeDay:

"Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?" pic.twitter.com/AeyM2Qyxfz

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 20, 2018