Lack Of DACA Prompts Protest Outside Schumer's Park Slope Home

PARK SLOPE, NY — Hundreds of protesters marched outside of Sen. Charles Schumer's Park Slope home over his failure to secure an agreement on Dreamers' immigration status in the deal to reopen the government.

The protesters, organized by local groups including Indivisible Nation BK and Make the Road New York, started outside Grand Army Plaza night then marched to Schumer's Prospect Park West home on Tuesday night.

Protesters — with signs calling to pass a "Clean Dream Act Now" — called on Schumer to secure a long-term agreement for the legal status of undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children after he voted on a bill to end the government shutdown without them.

"Our community is outraged by the Senate vote to pass a temporary budget deal with no solution for Dreamers," organizers wrote on the Facebook page. "Our lives are on the line, Chuck! We need a clean Dream Act now — not in three weeks."

The government shutdown last week after Congress failed to pass an emergency spending bill to keep it open. Democrats, including Schumer, did not want to vote on the bill unless Republicans gave protections to the nearly 800,000 of immigrants awarded legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program, which Trump previously announced would end.

Three-days later a bill was passed to end the shutdown with only a promise by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to "address DACA," the New York Daily News reported.

Schumer was hammered by some activists and left-leaning publications for voting for to the deal to open back up the government so quickly without securing protections for Dreamers.

"Dreamers are tired of empty promises and need a legislative solution NOW!" rally organizers wrote.

"It is past time for Senator Schumer to use his political power in Congress as the minority leader and finally bring home a clean #DreamActNow for undocumented youth, without compromising the future of their families by funding a racist wall and increased border security measures that only tear families apart."

Schumer faced similar protests in front of his home last year by thousands of residents who called on the senator to vote down Trump's cabinet nominees.

Protesters near Schumer's home last year. (Marc Torrence/Patch)