Let's think
about the classmates and the coworkers and our neighbors and family
members who have these children who are terrified that this protected
status will be stripped and taken away. For them, this is an emergency. Let's think about the 122 Dreamers who are losing their DACA status
every single day, 851 of them every week, over 11,000 of them since
September. Let's agree that this is a crisis, that this is an
emergency. It has been 91 days since this administration ended DACA,
and we cannot wait a single day longer. Let's reject the fearmongering. Let's find a bipartisan consensus to
act in the way that we know we should and can. Let's put the Dream Act
to a vote today. I believe it could pass and would pass if everyone
looked in their hearts and looked at the facts. Today, 35 House Republicans signed a letter, writing that they want a
DACA fix before the end of the year. It included Members from
California and Texas and Florida and Utah and Pennsylvania and New
York. Earlier today, my colleague, the junior Senator from Arizona,
said:
We don't need to make a statement.