California Immigrant Youth Alliance (CIYJA) formerly known as DASTA (California Dream Team Alliance) was formed as a statewide coalition to bring together organizers from around the state mobilizing for the DREAM Act. It is a statewide immigrant youth-led alliance that focuses on placing immigrant youth in advocacy and policy delegations in order to ensure pro-immigrant policies go beyond legalization, and shed light on how the criminalization of immigrants varies based on identity.
CIYJA create a space for intersectional, system0impacted undocumented and refugee immigrant youth across California with an emphasis on underserved QTBIPOC communities. They organize through an abolitionist framework to close down detention centers and build up community power through providing holistic care, transforming communities, and cultivating leadership for liberation.