They seem to
be working two jobs, and they are sending money to relatives. They are
just doing everything that we associate with hard work and thrift and
ingenuity and with what has made our country so unique and so special
in the world. I want to talk a little bit about what I have heard and also set the
record straight with respect to DACA, because there is an awful lot of
reckless talk about this legislation, and much of it just does not
resemble the truth. Misinformation is being spread to discredit DACA
recipients and their contributions to the country, and those innocent
lives are being damaged. Right now, Dreamers face the very real and
frightening threat that they may be ripped away from the only lives
that they know and the only country that they have ever known, and I
want to spell out why. The Congress is now up against an artificial deadline that was
created by this President in his scrambling to come up with a solution
for the 11,000 DACA recipients in Oregon and the hundreds of thousands
all over the country. If nothing is done in the Congress this year, we
know that these young people are going to be fearful, and they are
going to go into the holidays while wondering what is ahead for them
and their families. I just feel so strongly that they deserve better.