Days or perhaps hours after President Trump ends the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program again, Democratic congressman from Santa Ana Lou Correa asked the ‘dreamers’ not to give up.
"They are part of our economy and nation: they are soldiers, nurses, doctors. They deserve to be part of the American dream. Almost 80% of voters approve of dreamers and have many allies who support them"Said the representative.
Correa recalled that it was already known that President Trump was going to finish DACA again, after last June the Supreme Court of the Nation determined that his administration failed to justify the end of this program that provides a work permit and prevents the deportation of almost 800,000 young people. Therefore, the ruling gave DACA the go-ahead to move forward, and even accept new requests.
But the court also made it clear that Trump has the authority to end DACA, giving him room to try again.
"They practically gave him instructions on how to finish it correctly."
The DACA was approved by President Obama in June 2012 in the face of Congress's failure to pass the Dream Act, but President Trump announced its cancellation in September 2017..
Congressman Correa said the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of keeping DACA has a good angle, but also a bad one.
"It is good because it gives us time to breathe, and so that new DACA applications can be submitted, but we do not know and there is no guarantee that they will be accepted."
But the bad thing, he emphasized is that removed the emergency from the H.R.6 bill, known as the Dream Act that would give dreamers , high school graduates, the opportunity to apply for legal residency and five years later to be eligible for citizenship. It would also cancel his deportation.
“Before the Supreme Court ruling, there was a lot of motivation to approve it. Now practically that momentum and that rush is lost. "
Initially, the measure was presented by the Democratic representative Lucille Roybal-Allard and approved by the House of Representatives with a 237 vote in favor, 187 against in June 2019.
The Senate version of the Dream Act is similar, but not identical to the bill passed in the House of Representatives. It was introduced by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin in March 2019.
"We hope that the Senate will approve it, because we have many allies even among Republicans like Texas Senator John Cornyn, but even when that happens, we don't think the President will sign it. We never know how it will act"
What would you say to the dreamers who have been on a roller coaster of emotions since 2017?
"Advocating and defending them is our job and although it will be very difficult, we are going to put pressure on the system to give them an immigration solution."
He made it clear that Trump's reelection puts dreamers at risk. "That's why we need Joe Biden to win because he would be a president with leadership who can unite Republicans, Democrats, Hispanics, and the world."
The congressman said that if Bernie's supporters vote for Biden there is a chance that he will win, but if Trump is re-elected, he warned that he will continue to tear the country apart.
Correa, who is a member of the Veterans Commission in Congress, also said that the savage hammering of the soldier Vanessa Guillén by Aaron Robinson, another soldier at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, is a black eye for the forces. armed.
"We cannot tolerate such people in the military, and we must ensure that assaulted people can report such cases."
