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Dreamers fear deportation if Congress delays debate on Daca fix until new year
Source: The Guardian
Dreamers fear deportation if Congress delays debate on Daca fix until new year
The Democratic leadership appears to have quietly dropped its threat to shut down the government this week if no deal is reached on immigration reform
Lauren Gambino and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
Thu 21 Dec ‘17 11.00 GMT
Indira Marquez Robles will turn 18 on Friday. But more than a party or presents, the Houston teen wants Congress to pass the Dream Act, a bipartisan plan that would protect young, undocumented immigrants like herself from deportation.
“The deadline for deciding what to do on Daca is on my birthday,” Marquez Robles said. “So it could be the best birthday present ever or the biggest blow to the chest I could imagine.”
The high school senior is part of a groundswell of liberal activists demanding Congress to enact protections for the nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, known as Dreamers, before adjourning for the year.
But on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are now all but certain to leave Washington for the holidays without resolving the fate of the young immigrants.
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The Democratic leadership appears to have quietly dropped its threat to shut down the government this week if no deal is reached on immigration reform
Lauren Gambino and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
Thu 21 Dec ‘17 11.00 GMT
Indira Marquez Robles will turn 18 on Friday. But more than a party or presents, the Houston teen wants Congress to pass the Dream Act, a bipartisan plan that would protect young, undocumented immigrants like herself from deportation.
“The deadline for deciding what to do on Daca is on my birthday,” Marquez Robles said. “So it could be the best birthday present ever or the biggest blow to the chest I could imagine.”
The high school senior is part of a groundswell of liberal activists demanding Congress to enact protections for the nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, known as Dreamers, before adjourning for the year.
But on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are now all but certain to leave Washington for the holidays without resolving the fate of the young immigrants.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/21/dreamers-fear-deportation-if-congress-delays-debate-on-daca-fix-until-new-year