Waiting
until March would mean an extension of her anxiety, apprehension, and
fear. It would also mean the extension of a humanitarian crisis. Make no mistake, for 8,000 young people in Connecticut and 700,000 in
the United States of America, threatening deportation to them is an
unprecedented message to the world and to ourselves. It says something
about who we are. To leave them hanging is not only unfair, it is
unworthy of us as Americans. More practically speaking, tens of thousands of DACA recipients are
estimated to have already lost their protection from removal. Kicking
the can down the road would mean continued anguish for those 700,000
young people, and it would mean breaking a promise. They came forward.
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