[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 45 (Thursday, March 31, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H2119]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THE DREAM ACT CHILDREN

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I stand today to ask my 
colleagues to help American families and children.
  I join my good friend Congressman Luis Gutierrez on acknowledging the 
many children, the talented children that are in our schools that 
deserve the best education, along with all of our children who happen 
to have been in this country most of their lives but they're 
undocumented. They are called the DREAM Act children, the children who 
are our future engineers and doctors, teachers and train workers, bus 
workers--people who help build America.
  It is time now to support comprehensive immigration reform. It's time 
now to distinguish between the bad guys, whom all of us want to be see 
deported, versus these young children who are valedictorians and 
salutatorians, who are athletes, who are men and women in the United 
States military, who are seeking to be part of the pillars of this 
community. I want to join in standing alongside these American families 
and children, not to break up families who are raising wonderful 
Americans but yet are not statused because of the way their families 
came to seek an opportunity.
  Comprehensive immigration reform is the answer, but we must protect 
the DREAM Act children.

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