Kamala exhorts Congress to support DACA children |
As members of Congress stated Dec. 19 that measures to provide relief from deportation to over 800,000 undocumented youth would be delayed until next year, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, joined several senators to say she would not support a stopgap budget measure to keep the government going until mid-January, unless a fix for DACA was included. This is a matter of morality. What is the right thing to do here among leaders who say they have power,” stated the Indian American senator at a rally in Washington D.C. Dec. 19. Use your power. Keep your promises to these young people,” Harris exhorted members of Congress. These young kids won`t be having a merry Christmas. They don`t know if they will be here tomorrow, this week or next month, stated Harris. Without DACA, their only options are to live here without papers and in fear of deportation, or to leave the only country they`ve ever known,” wrote Harris in an op-ed for Elle magazine. They have no path to citizenship. They can`t leave the country and get in line to immigrate here. After Trump rescinded the Dream Act on Sept. 5 – an Obama-era executive order providing relief from deportation and work authorization to 800,000 youth, including 7,000 young Indian Americans – 13,000 Dreamers have lost their protected status, according to Harris.
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