[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 177 (Wednesday, November 16, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8525]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        PROTECTING THE DREAMERS

  (Ms. GARCIA of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GARCIA of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize how critical it 
is for the Senate to protect the DACA program and the more than 800,000 
Dreamers in America.
  Brought here as children through no fault of their own, Dreamers have 
gone to our schools, grown up in our neighborhoods, served on the front 
lines for the pandemic, and are just as American as all of us in this 
room. Yet, the DACA program hangs by a thread because of right-wing 
politicians and judges.
  Mr. Speaker, 75 percent of Americans already support Dreamers 
obtaining a path to legal citizenship. So I call on the Senate to act. 
America wants action. We must pass legislation this Congress, or our 
Dreamers will suffer. We must put people over politics, Dreamers over 
rhetoric. It is now or never for America's Dreamers. We must act.

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