It happens all across America
at hotels, fast food restaurants, and convenience stores. If you are a
woman without official status, you have yet another barrier to speaking
out. When the DACA Program started, we made a promise to young people like
Reina. We promised them that if they came out of the shadows, they
would have an opportunity to live and to work and to go to school
without the fear of deportation. We promised to protect them. Donald
Trump broke that promise when he ended DACA. But there is something that Congress can do to help Reina and people
like her, young kids who have spent their lives reaching for their
dreams. We can pass a clean Dream Act, a bipartisan bill that would
give young people like Reina status and a path to citizenship, a bill
that protects those young people without subjecting their parents or
their siblings to deportation. We could do that, but time is running
out. Soon DACA recipients will begin losing their status and will be
subjected to deportation. We can stop that from happening, but we have
to act soon. I am ready to vote and many of my colleagues on both sides
of the aisle are ready to vote.
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