Immigrants aren't just economic factors; they're human
beings -- in the case of the Dreamers, human beings who have been members of
our society for most of their lives. But even in the Republicans' own terms,
the Dream Act would be a big win for the great majority of us.
By David L. Wilson, Truthout
January 12, 2018
This month is almost certain to bring a major confrontation
in Congress over the fate of the nearly 700,000 young immigrants who are losing
the protection from deportation that they had under President Obama's Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, now slated to end on March 5.
Immigrant rights activists are demanding that Congress
safeguard DACA recipients by finally passing some version of the Dream Act,
legislation first proposed in 2001 that would provide legal status for about 2
million immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors. The Republican
leadership in Congress, on the other hand, insists that to get any relief for
DACA recipients, Democratic legislators must agree to increases in immigration
enforcement and a tightening of restrictions on authorized immigration.
President Trump tweeted on December 29 that "there can be no DACA without
the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible
Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc."[…]
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| Immigrant rights march in Los Angeles, September 11, 2016. Photo: Molly Adams |
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