Speech #1140100973

In a few weeks. I expect it will be resolved. and I believe the Presidents position will be sustained. He has said it is his Executive responsibility to decide priorities in deportation. He wants to deport felons. not families. and he wants to make sure young people have a chance. The President is doing what every other President has done in both political parties. He has been challenged by Republican Governors in a handful of States. and those challenges have suggested that these young people and their parents should be deported. In fact. there is a Presidential candidate on the Republican side. the presumptive nominee. Mr. Trump. who has called for the deportation of these peoplethe deportation of people whom you are going to meet every single day. They are your neighbors. They are the people who wait on you in the store. They may be working in a nursing home caring for your parent. They might be sitting next to you in church. The Trump positionand those of the more radical wing of the Republican Partyis that they should be asked to leave America and deported. To me. that is unwise and unfair. These people should be given a chance to earn their way to legalization and citizenship. to pay their taxes. pay their fees. go through a background check to make sure they are no threat to our country. and be allowed to continue and stay and live in the United States. Well. the challenges to DACA. the program for the original DREAMers. have reached the point where one judge in Texas. Andrew Hanen. a district court judge. hearing the case challenging DACA. ordered the Justice Department to turn over the details on 108.000 of these DREAMers who received 3year DACA permits. including their contact information. Judge Hanen indicated this information could be provided to the Republican Governors who filed the lawsuit. DREAMers are understandably very nervous about this personal information being turned over to Republican officials who made clear they want to deport these young people back to countries where they havent lived since they were children. Thankfully. Judge Hanens order to turn over this information has been put on hold while we await the Supreme Courts decision. Even if the Supreme Court upholds President Obamas actions in creating DACA and DAPA. consider the possibility of Donald Trump as the next President. Mr. Trump has referred to Hispanic immigrants in the most offensive terms. He has called them "killers" and "rapists." Mr. Trump has pledged that if he is elected President. he will eliminate DACA and DAPA and deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants who live in this country. Over the years. I have come to the floor to tell the individual stories of these DREAMers. the young immigrant students who grew up in this country. I want to put a face on the people Donald Trump would deport. I want people who are following this debate to meet the young people who they believe have no right to be in the United States and have no future in this country and should be asked to leavein fact. forced to leave. I want to show America who these people are. Lets not talk about these undocumented people. Lets talk about the individual who is involved and the families who are involved. This photo is Lisette Diaz.