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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">A note from Melissa for your consideration.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Melissa Williams <melissa.williams@centralia.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 1, 2018 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Smith, Gerard<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] DACA recipients</font>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Gerry,
<div>I hope you are doing and that the mission of FACTC is continuing under your solid leadership. </div>
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<div>I am still teaching online as an adjunct for Centralia College, so I wanted to share an email I just received from the Archdiocese of Seattle regarding the needs of DACA recipients during this time of uncertainty. </div>
<div>I have pasted the email below and will leave it to your discretion as to whether you choose to share it with students, colleagues, and/or other community colleges on our side of the Cascades. <br>
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<div class="x_PlainText">Melissa Williams<br>
Off-Campus Adjunct<br>
melissa.williams@centralia.edu</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">As you know, there are over 750,000 young people protected under
<a href="http://www.seattlearchdiocese.org/Assets/PastoralCare/11057_jfibackgrounderDACA.pdf">
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a> (<b>DACA</b>), around 18,000 within WA State, many of whom are Catholics and part of our communities. While the
<a href="https://justiceforimmigrants.org/statements/u-s-bishops-executive-committee-release-statement-administrations-daca-decision-calls-catholic-faithful-urge-congress-pass-dream-act/">
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops</a> and <a href="http://www.seattlearchdiocese.org/Assets/PastoralCare/12486_DACA-BishopsResponse.pdf">
our local Bishops</a> remains committed to advocating for a long term solution to DACA, we’d like to explore how we can best accompany these youth and young adults within the Archdiocese.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>Here is how you can help:</b> if you know young Catholics over 18 years of age or older and on DACA, we would like to gather with a small group of them the second week in February.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Please consider having them contact me (by phone or email) or sending me their contact information and I will reach out to them. This would be confidential and the goal is to listen to them and together, explore what they think would
be an appropriate way for the church to be accompany them at this time. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Thanks you, Edwin. </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="color:red">Spanish Text</span></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-US">Estimados colaboradores en ministerio, </span>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-US">Como ustedes saben, hay más de 750,000 jóvenes amparados por el programa de
<a href="http://www.seattlearchdiocese.org/Assets/PastoralCare/11057_jfibackgrounderDACA.pdf">
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a> (DACA), de los cuales alrededor de 18,000 residen en nuestro estado y son jóvenes católicos, miembros de nuestras familias y comunidades. La
<a href="https://justiceforimmigrants.org/statements/u-s-bishops-executive-committee-release-statement-administrations-daca-decision-calls-catholic-faithful-urge-congress-pass-dream-act/">
Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos</a> y <a href="http://www.seattlearchdiocese.org/Assets/PastoralCare/12523_DACA-BishopsResponseSp.pdf">
nuestros Obispos locales</a> continúan abogando por un solución permanente a esta situación. Mientras tanto, estamos buscando, localmente, maneras en que podemos servir directamente a estos jóvenes en la Arquidiócesis.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES-US">Esta es la manera como puede ayudar</span></b><span lang="ES-US">: deseamos reunirnos con un grupo pequeño de jóvenes católicos mayores de 18 años de edad amparados bajo DACA la segunda semana de febrero. Si conoce
a un(a) joven con estas características, le pido de favor que me ayude a entrar en contacto con el (ella) dándole mi información de contacto o proveyéndome la de él/ella.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-US">Esto se manejara de manera confidencia y tiene como fin el explorar juntos, maneras como estos jóvenes pueden ser acompañados por la iglesia en este tiempo de incertidumbre.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-US">Agradezco su apoyo en este esfuerzo, Edwin.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A">___________________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A">Edwin Ferrera | Archdiocese of Seattle</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A">Director of Multicultural Youth and Young Adult Ministry</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A" lang="FR">Tel. 206.382.4846 | Cell
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A">206-900-5302
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A" lang="FR">| Fax 206.903.4627</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A" lang="FR">Email:
</span><a href="mailto:edwin.ferrera@seattlearch.org"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue" lang="FR">edwin.ferrera@seattlearch.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A" lang="FR"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#44546A" lang="FR">Learner–Connectedness–Achiever–Restorative-Context </span></b></p>
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