[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14712]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            EL PASO DREAMERS

  (Mr. O'ROURKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. O'ROURKE. Mr. Speaker, in this country, there are over 700,000 
DREAMers, children and young Americans brought to this country at a 
young age, through no fault of their own, to improve their lives, their 
opportunities, and those of their families. They are every bit as much 
American as you or I or our children.
  Pictured next to me is Itzel Campos of El Paso, Texas, a 15-year-old 
sophomore at Franklin High School, who came to a townhall meeting that 
we had last night where 300 El Pasoans came out to either tell their 
stories or show support for DREAMers.
  We want to make sure that the President-elect and that the Congress 
that we have here and the one that will be seated in January do 
everything within their power to keep these DREAMers in our country, 
who will earn more than $4 trillion in taxable income during their 
lives but, more importantly, will contribute to the American Dream, 
will improve communities like mine, which happens to be the safest city 
in America in large part because of the immigrants, and especially 
these DREAMers who call El Paso home, and to give people like Itzel 
every chance to succeed, to improve their lives and the course of this 
country.

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