[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4824]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            DAPA AND SOPHIE

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, you might recognize this image. This is a 
photo of Sophie Cruz, my 6-year-old constituent from South Gate, 
California, who made headlines when she ran through the barricades to 
meet Pope Francis last year.
  Sophie is one of 5 million children who is an American citizen but 
whose parents are undocumented and face deportation. She asked Pope 
Francis to support DAPA, a program which could prevent her family from 
being separated.
  On Monday, DAPA was deliberated in the Supreme Court, and now the 
fate of millions of children like Sophie and their families is in the 
hands of the Justices.
  Sophie was in D.C. on Monday ready to tell her story. She rallied a 
crowd of hundreds of people on the Supreme Court steps and asked the 
Justices to think about her family.
  I could not be more proud of Sophie. But a 6-year-old girl, however 
courageous she may be, should not have to come all the way to 
Washington, D.C., to advocate for fixing the broken immigration system. 
That is our job.
  The Supreme Court should unfreeze DAPA--but we in Congress need to 
finally pass comprehensive immigration reform--for Sophie and for 
millions of children she represents.

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