Mr. Speaker. as The New York Times said in an editorial last week. there is an immigration crisis looming next year. but it has nothing to do with the border. Rather. it is the huge effort that will be needed to fulfill the Presidents executive actions and get millionsmillionsof American families out of harms way by protecting them from deportation and destruction. Sure. we are celebrating the series of executive actions taken by the President. but we are also rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. So I want to talk just a little bit about what we are doing in the city of Chicago and what I am hoping my colleagues here in Congress and my colleagues across the country in communitybased organizations. the legal community. and immigrant and Latino neighborhoods in every State will do to help with getting people ready to sign up when the window to submit applications opens in 180 days and the governments review of cases begins. This coming Saturday. the 13th. at 9:30 in the morning I will be at Rebano Church on the north side of Chicago. and more than 500 families have already preregistered for an orientation. We will go over what the Presidents announcement means for individual immigrants and their families. Then those who have preregistered will have an opportunity for a oneonone preliminary evaluation of their eligibility from people we are calling family defenders. We are already scheduling followup events this month and into the new year. and we will be ready to accommodate the huge demand for accurate and trustworthy information.
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