My colleague, Mr. Correa, has joined us to offer
that motion in a few minutes. Many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle often say that
the real deadline for a DACA solution isn't until March, but, in
reality, every day, already over 100 Deferred Action recipients lose
their protected status, are unable to work with their situation
unresolved. For those DACA recipients, the deadline isn't March. The deadline has
already passed, hence, the urgency. Now is the time to pass the Dream
Act, to allow these DACA recipients to continue to live and work and
serve in the only Nation that many of them have ever known their whole
lives. All the while, congressional Republicans still refuse to work with
Democrats on a long-term government funding solution. Here we are less
than 10 days from another government shutdown.