When the Trump administration announced last fall it would phase out a program that provides deportation relief to thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children, Los Angeles teacher Miriam Gonzalez Avila didn’t want her students to think she could be defeated so easily — so she sued.
“I knew signing up as a plaintiff for a lawsuit was going to be a big deal, and I think ultimately the reason I did it was for my students,” said Avila, a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at Crown Preparatory Academy who also is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient. “Since they were the ones who were like, ‘So, Miss, what’s going to happen?’ I didn’t want them to think that I was just going to do nothing. I told them, ‘No, I’m going to fight.’ ”…
Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.