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Butterflies Immigration Leaders of Eastern Connecticut

On September 5, 2017, President Donald Trump rescinded DACA, effectively ending the future of hundreds of thousands people, unless activists and Congress can bring about some kind of change. The people here are activists working within the state to try and bring about change. These quotes are their thoughts on the importance of the immigration rights movement.

"To me the fight for DACA represents the power of brave, strategic organizing by young people of color. When all strategies of 'respectability' and 'acceptable' organizing and activism failed, radical tactics such as interrupting the president of the U.S.A's speeches got us results. It is hope and proof that we can win."

- Renato Calle; Willimantic community organizer & CT Working Families Party campaign manager

This photo essay was funded by a 2017 Romano Award for Human Rights Photojournalism through the Human Rights Institute at UConn.

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Amar Batra
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