Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about three issues that
are very important to my district and the Nation. First, I want to talk about the immigration policy or the lack of an
immigration policy that we have in this country; a, in essence, broken
immigration system. For years I have been saying that we need to fix it, and we need to
do that in a bipartisan way because it is the only way we are going to
be successful. I supported bipartisan efforts in 2013, the legislation
that came out of the Senate by a vote of 68-13. Prior to that, I
supported President Bush's efforts and, more recently, President
Obama's efforts; but, unfortunately, we have not been successful
through these efforts. That is why today I think we need to be focusing on at least one
segment that would have been addressed if, in fact, we fix this broken
immigration system. And that is those DREAMers, those young people
covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that
was initiated by President Obama that is now going to expire. These people came here at the average age of 6 years.
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