Britney Spears supports the Dream act on Twitter

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Britney Spears supports Dreamers and her fans are all for it

Her T-shirt says it all.

 

Samantha Grasso

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Posted on Dec 23, 2017   Updated on May 22, 2021, 7:02 am CDT

In September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ended the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, putting thousands of legally-working undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation. Now, as immigration activists push for Congress to pass a clean Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act to protect immigrants from deportation and to give them a path to citizenship, Britney Spears wants to enlist your help.

On Friday night, Spears shared a classic full-body photo of herself wearing a black T-shirt with the statement, “We are all Dreamers.”

“Tell Congress to pass the #DreamAct,” she urged, linking to Emerson Collective, a California nonprofit encouraging immigration reform that created the shirt.

Spears’ fans flipped for the star’s support of Dreamers, the undocumented immigrants who would be affected by the legislation.

https://twitter.com/blackpinknie/status/944412862641987584

https://twitter.com/heyandrewjoel/status/944412327646060544

Last Wednesday, Dreamer activists rallied at Capitol Hill to protest the passing of the spending bill until it includes a version of the DREAM Act without concessions for border wall or security funding, according to Democracy Now. Without a DREAM act, 700,000 undocumented immigrants are at risk of being deported once their two-year DACA permits expire, with more than 13,000 people having already lost their DACA permits since September.

In the words of Spears herself, “You better call Congress, bitch.”

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*First Published: Dec 23, 2017, 1:04 pm CST