[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 174 (Monday, December 5, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H7178-H7179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        PLEASE MEET DAISY ARVIZU

  (Mr. O'ROURKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. O'ROURKE. Madam Speaker, please meet Daisy Arvizu, who was one of 
over 300 El Pasoans to join us at a DREAMers town hall that we held in 
downtown El Paso at the Community Foundation Room with the Border 
Network for Human Rights and Las Americas Immigration Center last week. 
It was an opportunity for our community to come forward, both the 
DREAMers in our community and those who support the DREAMers, like 
Daisy who was brought here at the tender age of 1 year and 8 months, 
who works two jobs, a day job and a night job, and is also a student at 
the El Paso Community College.
  Because the President-elect has vowed to terminate the executive 
action known as DACA, that means Daisy

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has uncertainty, at a minimum. In the worst case scenario, she will be 
deported back to a country she does not know, a language she does not 
speak, and she and this country will lose the benefit of her potential.
  Madam Speaker, we need to do the right thing. We need to keep Daisy 
and the 700-plus other DREAMers in this country for the benefit of our 
country and the potential that they can bring to the United States. I 
ask for your help, the help of the Members here, and the President-
elect in making sure that we do the right thing for this country and 
for young DREAMers like Daisy.

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