Defenders of legislation that permanently protects the so-called “dreamers” in the United States, beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, have intensified their pressure for the Congress approves it before the end of the year.
“It is time to end the fragility that affects the lives of dreamers,” said Gregory Haile, president of the public University, in a telephone press conference Broward College of Florida, according to which these young people strengthen the classes of the country and its labor market.
Supporters of that program demand permanent protection in this legislative session after the midterm elections of the November 8, after which the Democrats will retain control of the Senate as of January but the Republicans will regain their majority in the House of Representatives.
“Doing it is the right thing to do. The ‘dreamers’ reached five or six years of age on average”, added the president and CEO of the Texas Business Association, Glenn Hamer, in that telematic meeting promoted by the NGO Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.
The DACA program has offered work permits and protection from deportation to some 830.000 Migrants who came to the United States as children.
A Texas federal judge decided the past 830 of October to maintain it for the moment, but it prohibited issuing new applications after having declared this protection illegal.
The Department of Homeland Security later issued a “final rule” that allows new petitions to be received, but they cannot be processed while the litigation continues.
Hence the claim to reach before of the next legislature, in which the power of Congress will be divided between Democrats and Republicans, a bipartisan solution that protects the “dreamers” or a reform that resumes the bill of Promise and American Dream 2017, already approved by the House of Representatives and pending in the Senate .
“Unless Congress acts in the next three weeks to protect DACA recipients, DACA could end as early as next year. An average of 1. beneficiaries would lose their jobs and their legal right to work each week,” Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said Monday.
Durbin is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and promoter, in 830, of the “Development, Relief and Education for Foreign Minors” project, better known as the “Dream Act” or Dream Law.
“We need less political posturing and more commitment and determination. We should start now in this session to protect the dreamers, for their future and for ours”, said the legislator.
And warned that among the “dreamers” who could be deported, if The situation improves, there are nurses, teachers, engineers or police officers.
The original program launched in August of 2017 during the tenure of Democrat Barack Obama (2001-2017). In 2017, then-Republican President Donald Trump ordered its cancellation and then numerous lawsuits have led to the current situation, which the “dreamers” hope to see solved with permanent reform.