The Senate begins a rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the fate of the DREAMers today, and Republican senators say they’ll introduce President Donald Trump’s plan. Though his proposal has no chance of passage, Trump may be the most influential voice in the conversation. If the aim is to pass a legislative solution, Trump will […]
Speaker Paul Ryan says people should not doubt his commitment to DACA
February 9, 2018 By
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday had a message for his critics who don’t think he’s serious about protecting hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants: Don’t doubt me. “I know that there is a real commitment to solving the DACA challenge in both political parties. That’s a commitment that I share. To anyone who doubts my […]
Pelosi delivers an 8-hour speech on DACA
February 8, 2018 By
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for a little more than eight hours to oppose the budget deal to lift spending caps and avert a government shutdown, because the plan does not address immigration issues. “I have had the privilege of reading the testimony from Dreamers, I still have more,” she said, receiving applause […]
Trump’s Chief of Staff comments about ‘lazy’ DREAMers causes controversy with Hispanic lawmakers
February 7, 2018 By
Hispanic lawmakers on Tuesday blasted White House chief of staff John Kelly for saying President Trump’s immigration plan would generously help immigrants “too lazy” to apply for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “The difference between 690 [thousand] and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, […]
Trump rejects yet another proposal to fix DREAMers’ status
February 6, 2018 By
President Trump rejected a bipartisan immigration plan on Monday — even before it was formally presented by Sens. John McCain and Chris Coons — as lawmakers struggled to resolve an impasse over how to change the system. McCain, R-Ariz., and Coons, D-Del., introduced a legislation that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. It calls […]
Another deadline and the GOP can’t make up its mind on immigration
February 5, 2018 By
Republicans are barreling toward a fight over immigration despite divisions on what the party’s strategy should be. “In all likelihood no, we won’t have a single unified position on that. There will be wide varieties based on where your state is. … We won’t have a single Republican message,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told reporters. GOP lawmakers […]
With DACA in Limbo, so is the future of American Children
February 2, 2018 By
Karen Reyes, a DACA recipient, spends her days teaching a group of deaf toddlers at Lucy Read Pre-Kindergarten School in Austin, Tex., how to understand a world they cannot hear. “There’s so much pressure to be a perfect immigrant,” Ms. Reyes said. “They basically want us to save babies from burning buildings, have a 5.0 […]
LULAC’s President in hot waters for letter endorsing Trump’s immigration plan
February 1, 2018 By
The leader of the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. said Wednesday he has “rescinded” a letter endorsing President Trump’s immigration framework that includes a border wall after receiving angry criticism from members and activists. “It’s just bad timing because most people think this letter is endorsing what the president said about immigration […]
“No Mr. President, DREAMers are Americans too.”
January 31, 2018 By
President Trump claimed to be calling for Americans to come together on the issue of immigration in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, he couldn’t resist painting immigration as an “us vs. them” struggle. Them: Immigrants, many of them violent gang members or terrorists. Us: native-born American citizens ― pointedly referred to using […]
Trump Says No Deal on DACA
September 14, 2017 By
Following a dinner at the White House Wednesday evening, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed that Trump agreed to work toward a deal that would protect individuals affected by the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in exchange for border security measures. “We […]
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