Speech #1140011274

This is what it says. This is what Janet Napolitano talked about in "exercising prosecutorial discretion." The June 15. 2012. DACA Executive order grants deferred action "for a period of two years"-here are the key words"subject to renewal." So there is nothing in my amendment that prevents children and young adultspeople up to age 30from getting a renewal of the deferred status that they have been granted through this Executive order. It says it right there: "subject to renewal." But lets look further at the data. This is on DHSs Web site. According to the data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. the government has renewed more than 148.000 2012 applications as of the first quarter of this fiscal year. and many of them were completed before the November 2014 Executive orders were even issued. So there is nothing in my bill that prevents the renewal of those individuals who received this status. It is very clear148.000 of them have had their applications renewed. The Senator from Illinois has said that I would prevent DHS from issuing a memorandum that allows for the renewal. There is no need for such a memorandum. otherwise. 148.000 of these young people would not have been able to get a renewaland before the 2014 Executive order was even issued. The Senator has also said that my bill calls into question the very legality of the 2012 DACA order because it is a "very similar program to the 2014 Executive action." To restate my basic point. my bill does not affect the 2012 DACA Program. It is substantially different from the 2014 Executive order. In fact. if you read the language of the 2014 Executive order. it embraces that distinction. It specifically states that it does not rescind or supersede the 2012 DACA order. Let me say that again. The 2014 Executive order specifically states that it does not rescind or supersede the Executive order that was issued in 2012.