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Protecting DREAMers

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 5, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children Immigration

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Mr. Speaker, today the President made clear that he refuses to protect DREAMers. It is now imperative that Congress acts to protect DREAMers before DACA ends.

This issue is personal for me because I, too, was brought to our country by my parents as a child. The hope for a better life which carried my parents here from oceans away was no different from that of the parents of DREAMers and generations of immigrants before.

DREAMers play a vital role in our economy, and ending DACA would cost our country nearly half a trillion dollars over 10 years. But the contributions of DREAMers go beyond any single statistic: DREAMers have
built their lives here, started families here, built businesses here, and bled in uniform for the only home they have ever known.

I urge Speaker Ryan and my colleagues from both parties to come together to defend DREAMers and to develop a comprehensive approach to immigration built on American values.

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