There are 800,000 Dreamers across our
country. I know they all very much appreciate his leadership. The young men and women who came out of the shadows to be part of the
DACA Program--Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals--were made a
promise that they would be all right if they did so; that their
information would not be used then to deport them. So they took a
gamble that the United States would stand by the commitment it was
making to them, and now they are wondering what happened because their
futures are dangling by a thread. The program has been abandoned by the
President, and if it is not replaced by legislation done right here in
this room, they basically will be subject to being deported to places
where they don't speak the language, they don't understand the
culture--they are unfamiliar with it--and they don't have any network. They are really kind of stateless individuals who are in a very tough
condition. One person like this from Salem, OR, is Diana Banda Palacios.
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