Bernie Sanders posted a video Friday expressing support for young immigrants who are protesting the Trump Administration’s move to rescind the program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

“I will do everything I possibly can to protect these people from being thrown out of the only country they have ever known,” the Vermont senator wrote in the post on his social media accounts.

Congress will have six months to come up with legislation to address the issue before the government stops renewing permits for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA.


There are nearly 800,000 recipients, often referred to as “Dreamers,” who are granted protection from deportation and permission to work in the U.S. through the program.

In the video, DACA recipients said they were protesting the phasing out of the program by fasting.

“We will all eventually be in danger of going back to countries that we’ve never lived in and have never been to,” one woman says.

Sanders wrote that he’s “incredibly proud of these brave people.”

Watch his video below: