It is shameless to play politics with the life of this young man and hundreds of thousands of others. It is just shameless to put homeland security funding at risk. to punish Juan Rios for having been brought to this country as a child. The House Republicans feel so strongly about deporting DREAMers they are willing to hold up the homeland security funding bill. The House Republicans are telling the Senate and the President: Deport the DREAMers or we are going to shut down the agency responsible for protecting America from terrorism. I hope the Senate majority leader will reject this blackmail. and I hope that in the spirit of the Senate. where we came together on a bipartisan basis to pass immigration reform almost 2 years ago. we will reject this hatefilled message from the House Republicans. For our part. Senate Democrats will insist that the Department of Homeland Security be funded and that the President have the authoritywhich every President has hadto establish his own immigration policies. I see there is another colleague on the floor. I yield the floor.
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