In 2010. I joined with Republican Senator Richard Lugar. We wrote a letter to President Obama. It said: Why would we deport these young DREAMers? They offer so much potential for America. A year later. 22 Senators joined me in sending a followup letter to the President. and he issued his Executive order called DACA. Six hundred thousand eligible DREAMers have signed up for DACA. which means for these 600.000. they can live and work in America without the fear of deportation. It makes a big difference. Thirty thousand of them live in Illinois. We estimate there are another 1.5 million eligible.
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