DACA, Automatic Voter Registration, Hurricane Harvey/Climate Change [guest host Maggie Thompson]

Published: Aug. 29, 2017, 7:04 p.m.

Our guest host today is Maggie Thompson of 'Generation Progress', a national organization that works with and for young people to promote progressive solutions to key political and social challenges. (On Twitter: @maggiekthompson)

Below are the topics she discussed, along with the guests she was joined by.

1. Will Trump eliminate DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and what would that mean for those children, their families, and the U.S. Economy

Guest 1: Claudia Flores, DREAMer and Immigration Campaign Manager at the Center for American Progress

Guest 2: Andrea Senteno, Civil Rights Attorney for MALDEF, The Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights In America
Tweets: @aesenteno

2. Automatic Voter Registration and Illinois becoming the latest state to make the change, adding roughly 2.5 million voters in their state

Guest 1: Sarah Audelo, Executive Director at Alliance for Youth Action
Tweets: @SarahAudelo

Guest 2: Stevie Valles, Executive Director at Chicago Votes
Tweets: @StevieValles

3. Climate change's affect on Hurricane Harvey

Guest: Cathleen Kelly, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
Tweets: @CathleenMOKelly

The website for 'Generation Progress' is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter handle is @GenProgress.

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