[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    DREAMER INFORMATION PROTECTIONS

  (Mr. O'ROURKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. O'ROURKE. Mr. Speaker, this Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in El Paso, 
Texas, hundreds of my fellow citizens will come out to San Jacinto 
Plaza to join us in celebrating, supporting, and defending those 
DREAMers who, across this country, are 700,000 strong, who were brought 
here at a young age are now contributing in, living in our communities, 
going to school, serving in the military, and helping to create jobs 
and grow our economy.
  I am also introducing tomorrow the DREAMer Information Protection Act 
to protect those DREAMers who voluntarily came forward out of the 
shadows to give their personal information, their names, telephone 
numbers, and addresses to the Federal Government. I want to protect 
them and make sure that same government doesn't turn around and use 
that information to deport them, as the incoming administration has 
promised to end the executive DACA action and potentially deport those 
DREAMers on who this country is depending, not just for our economic 
success but our growth and success as a country that has always gained 
from immigrants who contribute to the American way of life.

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