GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, this past Saturday, I was a guest at
Lincoln United Methodist Church in Chicago, where we had an emergency
meeting to discuss how we would defend the DACA--Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals--initiative started 5 years ago. DACA has allowed nearly 800,000 DREAMers--immigrants who were brought
to the U.S. as children and who grew up here--to work and live here if
they meet certain requirements, go through a background check, and
renew their application periodically. Now, Republicans, led by the Governor of Texas, are planning to sue
the President if he doesn't rescind DACA. And given this President and
his opinion of Mexicans, Latinos, and immigrants, we are not expecting
the President to put up much of a fight. So for a few weeks now, I have been telling people to prepare for the
end of DACA, maybe as soon as September. You can watch the speech on
Facebook or YouTube. A lot of Trump supporters got angry about what I
said on Saturday.
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