When talking about immigration reform, the start of "Jane the Virgin" and "The Orange is the New Black" Diane Guerrero can get really attached because of the experience that she had in connection with immigrant's life.
Most people have an American dream and to fulfill that they must go to the America and make their American dream into reality they to migrate to America. Immigrants became an important part of the culture and society in America.
For Guerrero, talking about immigration reform is quite personal because of her personal experience. Guerrero wrote in Los Angeles Times her heartbreaking experience when she was 14. She came home one afternoon from her performing arts high school in Boston, Massachusetts and she found out that her parents and older brother who are undocumented immigrants from Colombia were been taken away by the immigration officers.
The experience made Guerrero an advocate for immigration reform. Guerrero encourages President Barrack Obama to stop deportations by working with the Immigrant Legal Resource and Times and doing interviews in relations with immigration reform.
President Obama had just released a statement that he will propose a policy on removing the threat of deportation for emerging over 11.5 million undocumented people. President Obama created a program called Deferred Action for Childhood in 2012. The program removed the threat of deportation for two million immigrants younger than 30 who arrived in America before they were 16 years old and also gives them work permits. President Obama also has the power to extent the protection to six million parents of undocumented children next week.
According to Guerrero on her article in Times, the President promised to do an action on providing deportation aid for families across United States of America and she will urge him to do it quickly. For her keeping the families together can be considered as a core American value.
