GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, every day, 122 people with DACA lose
their protection from deportation. They lose their government-issued
identification that allowed them to stay in this country and work
legally. DACA is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the
President ended in September and which will completely expire in March. But let's be clear: people don't have until March. People are already
losing their DACA coverage on a daily basis. So when reporters and politicians say that Congress can stall until
March to enact the Dream Act, they are flat wrong. We cannot wait until
March. The Dream Act and the protections of the DACA program are not
light switches we can turn on and off. Every day we delay the passage
of the Dream Act, another 122 DACA recipients lose their status. They
go from being documented to being undocumented, and their worlds are
turned upside down. It is not just their lives, but also the lives of American citizens
who love them, who employ them, and who rely on them. Young DREAMers came forward and reported to the Department of
Homeland Security and paid their own money for a criminal background
check by the FBI.
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