[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15895]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS PROGRAM

  (Mr. O'ROURKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. O'ROURKE. Mr. Speaker, this is Nesbly Nayeli Saenz. She lives in 
my community, where she is raising a 14-, an 11-, and a 6-year-old U.S. 
citizen family. She is actively involved in the success of our 
community. She works two jobs, and she recently came out with over 320 
other El Pasoans to talk about the importance of ensuring that the 
DREAMers, 750,000 of our fellow Americans who were brought here to this 
country at a young age, are able to stay here. The uncertainty created 
by our President-elect's promise to end the DACA program is creating 
anxiety and fear for these DREAMers and may ultimately lead to their 
deportation, which will hurt not just those DREAMers and their 
families, it will hurt our country.
  I ask the President-elect and I ask this Congress to do our jobs to 
provide that certainty to make sure that our laws reflect our values 
and that we keep wonderful Americans like Nesbly in our communities, in 
our country. It is going to be good for them, and it is going to be 
good for our country.

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