Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and Houston City Council Member
Robert Gallegos. Due to Ximena's community service, she was asked by the mayor of
Houston to serve as the youngest member of the Mayor's Hispanic
Advisory Board. She is the first DACA recipient to serve on that board. Last week, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Ximena stepped in to
help her community, just as she has always done. She volunteered at
shelters, helping people with FEMA and Red Cross applications. She was
joined by many other DACA recipients. She wrote me a letter. She asked for only one thing--for President
Trump to come and visit Houston and meet the DACA volunteers, to meet
those heroes, to look in their eyes, to hear their stories before he
made his decision about whether they had a future in the United States. Ximena and so many others have so much to give to this country. Without DACA, she faces deportation. This President, who said ``We love
the Dreamers,'' with his decision yesterday, has said that we are going
to deport the Dreamers. Ending the protection of DACA will mean they
will be subject to deportation any minute of any day. They would send
her back to Mexico, where she hasn't lived since she was 9. If that
happened, would America be a stronger country or a better country?
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