Liz Dong is a member of Wheaton Chinese Alliance, part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance – the same denomination I am a part of.

Following the November election, I was eager to find a way to voice my dissent in positive ways. When World Relief called, I jumped at the opportunity to make a resource that speaks both to my political views and my calling as a Christian to “do” justice, love mercy and walk humbly.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is an executive order implemented by President Obama in 2012 to temporarily protect from deportation undocumented immigrants who were brought into the US as children.

To qualify for DACA, candidates must have come to the US before age 16, are in school or have a high school degree or GED or have been honorably discharged from the US military, and are no threat to national security or public safety. DACA applicants go through biometrics background checks and pay a few hundred dollars in processing fee every two years for application and subsequent renewals.

Under DACA, qualified individuals have been able to attain work permits, driver’s license, and pursue higher education, allowing them to come of the shadows, out of constant fear of deportation and separation from family, to lead productive lives and contribute more to their communities. To date, over 740,000 individuals have been approved for deferred action. DACA recipients, also known as DREAMers, are working as teachers, doctors, artists and starting businesses as entrepreneurs and innovators.

President Donald Trump has promised to undo all executive orders, including DACA, immediately upon assuming office. Cancelling DACA or letting it expire without a permanent solution in place will remove temporary legal status and work authorization for DREAMers.

This would not only devastate the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals who did not have a say in coming to America as children, but also harm the US economy by removing these productive workers and consumers. One study has found that ending DACA would wipe away at least $400 billion from the U.S. GDP cumulatively over a decade.

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Often I’m so busy I forget to watch projects after I finish them. This 2009 interview with Moody Radio Senior Announcer Mike Kellogg, host of “Music Through the Night” popped up on my Youtube feed. Nice stuff Mike!

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Mike Jordan at 31 Lengths asked me to produce this testimony about Barb Bolsen, a graduate of Chicago Theological Seminary.

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Josh Garber is the youth pastor at Lombard Bible Church. Josh’s life-long faith journey was challenged while on a missions trip in Gabon, West Africa.

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Writer Phyllis Tickle, one of America’s foremost observers of religion, came upon her career unexpectedly by going wherever she was drawn. Her work and spiritual life are two halves of an integrated life.

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Susan Sparks, Pastor of Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City, is also a criminal lawyer and stand-up comic! Susan weaves law, faith and laughs together into a powerful testimony. I produced this segment for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago.

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“Despair, I’m convinced, is often a privilege of class. The poor don’t have the luxury of giving up.” The Rev. Paul Jeffrey is a United Methodist missionary who “uses both images and words to show how God is moving in the world to empower people who’ve been relegated to the margins.” Jeffrey has filed stories from more than 65 countries and won many awards for his work. “I’m constantly amazed at the hospitality of the poor. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been welcomed to a dirt-floor tent or house of someone who’s extremely poor, but they can’t wait to offer me something to drink or to eat or their only chair to sit on. I’m continually evangelized by the poor.”

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Valerie Mossman-Celestin is the Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace International, in Musac, Haiti. HAPI is a capacity building project funded in part by the United Methodist Committee On Relief. Valerie shared her testimony with me while on a visit to Musac in 2011. It is a spiritual journey that began with the question, “What is help?”

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