When Rush Limbaugh says, ``We are not going to send these kids
home,'' I can't believe that any of us on this floor are going to vote
to send these young people home. We need legislation to pass to protect
them and to give them the confidence. There is a wonderful editorial--I urge all of you to read it--from
Bob Gates, our former Secretary of Defense under both Presidents Bush
and Obama. He wrote an editorial about the thousands of, essentially,
DACA children, young people, who have served in our Armed Forces
valiantly. As a matter of fact, he said the attrition rate is a lot
less with DACA-protected individuals than it is with others. Bob Gates is right. We ought to act.