Mission Statement
The NC DREAM Team is an organization composed of undocumented immigrant youth and allies. We are dedicated to the creation of a sustainable, community-led immigrant rights movement in North Carolina. We aim to help undocumented youth recognize our individual and collective power to activate our communities. We also aim to create awareness of the broader struggle for social justice. We will escalate in our efforts to achieve a just reform that is acceptable to-and guided by-the voices of those directly affected by our broken immigration system.
Vision
As North Carolinians, we are committed to the empowerment and education of our community. It is to the community-and to the community alone-that we are accountable; we are not responsible to outside stakeholders, investors or politicians.
The current federal policy, which demands that the government accept our tax dollars with one hand while deporting our loved ones with the other, is unjust. We will address the hardships which immigrants face at their root causes. We are dedicated to building an immigrant rights movement that puts the voice of the immigrant at the forefront.
We do not shy away from purposeful direct action and civil disobedience in the pursuit of a more just future for our immigrant community.
Our movement is sustainable. Our movement is community-led. Our movement fights against the institutionalized discrimination and exploitation of our communities.
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July 6, 2021 at 4:28 pm
citizen
You don’t have to give your “tax dollars” to the government…just go back home…No, this is not your home.
You are not “dreamers!”
You are illegal aliens and have no right to stay here.
May 23, 2021 at 10:19 am
Elise
These kids have lived here their entire lives, they are more American then some citizens of the US. Their families are here, their lives are here, how can you deny someone the right to the place they call home. They are dreamers because they dream for equal rights. America is a country based on the idea that everyone has equal rights and no one is discriminated against, how can you blame these kids for fighting for the American dream.
March 15, 2022 at 12:18 pm
Linda
American’s are an unjust group of people and I at times regret being one. I have seen first hand what the Immigration process is like and exactly how broken it is. Americans have no problem sitting on their hands and watching their world waste away by their ignorance. The problems of the US are not caused by immigrants - illegal or otherwise. The problems of the United States come from people being close minded and bigoted to other human beings. Should a hard working person that is allowed to work here by one branch of our government should not be penalized by the other branches. A new immigration policy needs to go into effect to help the families that are here become legal and to keep them together. Just because someone crossed our borders without documentation - DOES NOT MAKE THEM A CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 15, 2021 at 4:44 pm
lessie
So glad to have found your organization! Thank you for your presence and your work for Dreamers in our communities.
July 2, 2021 at 9:43 am
Dennis
I support the Dream Team and what they are doing because just like my ancestors were brought to this country as “indentured servants”, their rights were not considered. The original inhabitants of this country are the so-called Native American who never voted to give citizenship to those from Europe…it was taken from them, and they were put on reservations. Now their children have the right to say who is a citizen and who is not??? Remember those who to this country were composed of thieves and the sort. Continue to fight and the struggle continues! Without no struggle there is no progress…Frederick Douglas!