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fact, we have done little or nothing on the floor of the Senate for the
last several months. We haven't done this, and it is still unresolved
as to whether or not they are going to have a chance to be a part of
America's future or for young people like them to have a similar
chance--unresolved. We have to do something about that and we have to do it soon because
every day 120 of these young people lose their protection under DACA. That is almost 1,000 a week. So far, 10,000 of them have fallen out of
protection under DACA. What does it mean under practical terms? First, it is the fear of
being deported. You are no longer protected. You are undocumented in
America. You can be deported: A knock on the door, and you are gone. Do these young people know that? Of course they do. I see them every
weekend. I sit down with them. They are emotionally distraught over the
possibility of their lives ending as they know it--being deported to
countries they have never been to before, facing languages they don't
know. Think about that possibility. You are 18 or 19 years old, and now you
are being deported back to Bolivia, where you have never been. You may
not speak Spanish very well, but now you are going to be tossed back
into Bolivia where you came from. So now the question is this: What will we do about this?
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