Diana Pliego works on a range of issues, including protection for DACA recipients and immigrant youth and fighting immigration enforcement. She leads the DACA team and our summer FirstGEN Fellows Program. Her expertise includes policy research, legislative analysis, and crafting strategic materials for effective advocacy. She enjoys collaborating across NILC teams and with coalition partners to reach our goals of advancing and protecting the rights of low-income immigrants and their families.
Diana shares a birthday with Princess Diana and has experienced the thrill of skydiving.
Home Is Here, and We’re Here to Stay
Oct 25, 2019 Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases. But it will be doing more than that. Its deliberation, on any scale, is a debate over whether I and hundreds...
Dream and Promise Act: An Important Step Forward for Our Communities
Mar 14, 2019 Earlier this week, a bill — the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 — was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would provide long-overdue, permanent relief to people who have become even more vulnerable since President Trump and...
Tips on How to be a Better Ally for the Immigrants’ Rights Cause
Dec 8, 2017 On Wednesday, thousands of immigrants and allies hit the streets to demand the passage of the Dream Act before the end of the year, and it was amazing. Over 200 people put their bodies on the line and were arrested demanding the...
Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today
Diana Pliego and Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec
Jan 17, 2020 Earlier this week, on January 13, 2020, we marked the two-year anniversary of the first injunction that reopened the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal application process. The first injunction and the injunctions that...