Time and again. we called this legislation. Sadly. it never passed the House and the Senate at the same time. Then President Obama decided 2 years ago that he would use his Executive authority to protect these young people from being deported. We estimate there are about 2 million of them across the United States. He said to them: If you will come forward. pay your fee. go through a background checkif you are prepared to do that and register with the government. we will spare you from deportation. That is what the DACA program is. Mr. President. 600.000 did. Mr. President. 600.000 came up with the money. I can recall in the city of Chicago when we had the sign upthe very first sign up for this DACA Executive order. It was amazing. We did not know if 200 people would show up or 400 or even 1.000. Well. the night beforeat midnight. the night before we started signing them upthe first day they could sign up for DACA. the families started gathering. standing outside at Navy Pier in downtown Chicago. They stood there all night waiting for a chance to sign up for this program. Many of them were parents accompanying their children. The parents themselves were not going to get any direct benefit from this. but they wanted their kids to be spared the fear of deportation. They wanted to give their kids a chance. In the end. thousands came through the doorso many we could not even handle the volume with our volunteer attorneys and many others who were helping. But it was a clear indication that these families wanted their children to have a chancea chance to earn their way into legal status in America. That is the DACA (Disturbance in the Visitors Galleries.)
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