I have done that many times, and I did it over
this weekend. I went to Benito Juarez High School in the city of Chicago. A group
of about 20 young people came forward, all of them protected by DACA. These young people started telling their stories of being brought to
the United States at the age of 1 or 2, watching as some of their
relatives have been deported, trying to grow up in America, uncertain
of their future--really uncertain today as to what they are going to be
doing--and many of them are extraordinarily talented young people. It
is not uncommon for them to break down in tears as they tell their
story. One was a 24-year-old graduate of college who received no Federal
assistance because she is one of the Dreamers and undocumented. She
finished college. She is now teaching in the Chicago Public School
System. If she loses DACA protection, she loses her job as a teacher. There are tens of thousands just like her across America. The senior Senator from Texas asks: What is the hurry?
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