Sen. Kamala Harris announced Friday she will bring a undocumented immigrant from Belize who grew up in Los Angeles to President Trump’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday.
Harris’ guest will be Denea Joseph, one of 220,000 Californians who have been protected from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that Trump canceled.
“Dreamers like Denea represent the best of who we are as a nation,” Harris said. “Her commitment to the representation and empowerment of black immigrant communities is inspiring. We must continue to fight to give her and the hundreds of thousands of other young people like her who are living in fear, the security they need to live up to their full potential.”
A UCLA alumnus, Joseph is currently the communications coordinator at the UndocuBlack Network, an advocacy organization that serves black, undocumented immigrants nationwide.
“As a young girl born in Belize, a country of no more than 370,000 people, I could’ve never fathomed that I’d be invited as a guest to the State of the Union Address,” said Joseph.
A UCLA alumnus, Joseph is currently the communications coordinator at the UndocuBlack Network, an advocacy organization that serves black, undocumented immigrants nationwide.