And he has done that. We failed to pass the DREAM Act in 2010. President Obama acted to protect DREAMers. by announcing DACA. deferred action for childhood arrivals. To date. almost 700.000 young individuals have been protected from deportation. Since then. Democrats led the charge for comprehensive immigration reform to fix our Nations broken immigration system. The Senate passed bipartisan immigration reform in 2013. which was important. but we now have people. such as the junior Senator from Florida. for example. who helped pass that legislation. but once he started running for national office decided that everything he did in bringing that bill to the Senate floor was wrong. and he has taken a 360degree turn and said: I did all of that. but I guess I was wrong. We havent been able to get it out of the House. and now we have people such as the junior Senator from Florida who is denigrating his own bill. President Obama acted within his legal Executive authority to unite American families and strengthen our immigration system. including protecting some adults with children in the United States from deportation. It is a longer story than that. but that is the short story. Energy and the environment.
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