This issue
has been on the forefront in recent discussions, not only among the
Latino community, the Hispanic-American community but with many of my
constituents across the board, and I am sure that is true in every
Senate office. Dreamers shared with me the hard work and struggles they
have endured to be successful in this country. Ending DACA, in my
judgment, is wrong. First of all, it is wrong to break a sacred promise
to hundreds of thousands of people living in our country, young people
who were promised by their government, if they came forward, they would
be protected. Ending DACA would be breaking that sacred promise. In Pennsylvania alone, estimates say that ending DACA would cost the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania nearly $357 million per year in GDP losses
to our State, and that is according to the Center for American
Progress. Ending DACA would result in the loss of $460.3 billion--not
million but billion--from the Nation's GDP over the next decade, again
according to the Center for American Progress. So it would be a betrayal to violate this covenant with hundreds of
thousands of young people, and it is really a bad move for the economy
of my State of Pennsylvania and the economy of our Nation. I was proud to vote for the DREAM Act in both 2007 and 2010, and I
hope the Senate will have a clean vote on the Dream Act soon.