Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from New York for
yielding. Mr. Speaker, there are 2,400 DACA recipients in my district. ``We are
not one,'' ``no somos uno.'' There are 30,000 DACA recipients in my
home State of New York. ``We are not 100,'' ``no somos cien.'' There
are 800,000 DACA recipients in the country. As of this year, there were
more than 10,000 noncitizens serving in the U.S. military and an
additional 12,000 noncitizens under Reserve status. ``We are millions,
count us well,'' ``somos millones, cuentanos bien.''
DREAMers are veterans, teachers, nurses, college students; and
DREAMers are also MacArthur genius fellows. Cristina Jimenez is a
MacArthur genius fellow, a powerhouse championship for immigrant youth,
and, like me, she is also a CUNY alum and she grew up undocumented. This is why I urge my colleagues to bring a clean Dream Act to the
House floor. H.R. 3440, the Dream Act, would not provide automatic
amnesty, as I have heard some of my colleagues incorrectly say.
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