Our clear and firm adherence to our values in challenging
times is more essential than ever. So stated the president of the University of Hawaii. In another very recent development, Hawaii's attorney general, Doug
Chin, joined 15 attorneys general from across the country filing suit
against the Trump administration to prevent it from eliminating the
DACA Program. They filed the lawsuit on equal protection grounds. I
strongly support efforts in the courts to prevent the President from
rescinding DACA and putting 800,000 young lives at risk for
deportation. Since the President has kicked the ball to Congress to save DACA,
something he could and should have done himself, Congress must step up
and do just that. Congress must step up because we cannot count on the
President to do the right thing by exerting consistent, comprehensive,
or moral leadership. Although it was completely within the President's
power to keep DACA in place, Congress can provide the certainty these
Dreamers deserve by passing the Dream Act, a bill that enjoys
bipartisan support. I also want to send a clear message to the President and his hardline
supporters in Congress. I will join with my colleagues to resist any
effort to hold Dreamers hostage to pay for the President's vanity wall,
in exchange for sharp reductions in legal immigration or for any other
dog whistles to his base. I will do everything I can to fight against
this administration's continued efforts to marginalize minority
communities or to pit immigrant communities against one another. As an
immigrant and minority myself, I certainly know what these communities
are experiencing. This is precisely what the President continues to do
in an effort to play to White supremacists in his base. Sadly, this is
not surprising.
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