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Over the future and fate of Daca and whether the Supreme Court will allow Daca to stand all of us today, stand in solidarity and in support of our dreamers and our Daca recipients they are as American as any single one of us and despite the President's attempts to slander them to speak ill about who they are and what they represent. these folks are among the very best that America has to offer. They are people who often times from a very young age as children arrived in this country have only known the United States as their home. Some who only speak the English language, all who have felt the fear of living in limbo for many years, who felt the joy in 2012 of being able to come out of the shadows when President Obama but Daca effect and now again feel. Of deportation looming. We are here today to speak the truth about who these people are and I wanna say thank you to the Daca recipients that are here today. It was amazing to be out on the Supreme Court steps and see people from every walk of life, not just the dreamers and their family members or the immigration advocates who have been doing such great work for many years, but also out in strong force members of the American business community who came out to speak the truth. About how valuable our dreamers are to this country. Earlier this year, the House of Representatives passed a Dream Act, a Dream and T P S Act HR six. The fact is all of us are anxious to see what the Supreme Court says. But in the House of Representatives and under Speaker Pelosi, we're also not waiting for the Supreme Court. We have taken action. We have passed a bill that would put dreamers on a path to citizenship where they belong as Americans with all of us. Unfortunately, right now, it's buried in the desk of Mitch McConnell and we're asking the Senate majority leader to take action to do right by these folks and to do what's best for the country. It's my honor to introduce somebody that I had an opportunity to serve with for several years and was a member of Congress for several years, but is now going on to an under another wonderful role in public service as the attorney General of California. that's my friend have you had Bassett? It's German, I am not only please be proud to stand with you the Hispanic Caucus with the Senate Democratic leadership in the House Democratic leadership to speak about Americans and American values. when California initiated its lawsuit along with many individual dreamers and joined by some 20 other States and the District of Columbia, it was to defend the people that are standing with us here today, it was to defend the values that have made it possible for those dreamers to feel American and to know. Are American what we heard today in court was that you gotta do it the right way. There's the right way to do things and there's a wrong way to do things the dreamers that are standing here did exactly what they were asked to do by the federal government. They came out of the shadows. They went through background checks. They proved that they have a basis to be in this country and now they proven themselves as doctors lawyers teachers as successful College students as people who in America, we would perceive to be our friends. Our family and perhaps our first responder and so they did it the right way the folks who did it the wrong way where the Trump administration they try to eliminate the Daca program illegally. and now they're being tested in court every court so far that has tested this question has found on behalf of the dreamers. We believe the Supreme Court will as well because the dreamers did it the right way. The Obama administration did it the right way. Congress is trying to do it permanently the right way. The Senate Republicans will join and if we do it the right way these folks who are American that we call dreamers will have a chance to shine and prove their full worth. We will continue this fight until the very end whether it's through Congress or through the courts, but we understand that when you do it, the right way you should not be punished and now I I believe Senator Durbin of the Senate Democratic leadership will speak net next. Let me hand it Mike over to Germany. And you've carried on in California with real leadership on this issue since you left the US House. Thank you for coming back home. today to be with us. on this historic day look behind me, the President says. You are looking at very tough and hardened criminals. Take a good look at these criminals. would you that's what the President tweeted this morning about these young men and women. He said that they were not no longer young and Angels well. None of us are that young anymore. I can tell you that and I don't know who among us would claim to be an angel. but this what this much we know about these men and women, young men and women standing behind me, you are looking at some of the most determined and courageous people in the United States of America. They have lived their entire lives under the shadow of an immigration status, which has raised a question every time someone knocked on the door. They have been counseled and. By their parents not to say the wrong thing not to do the wrong thing or their entire family could pay the price. That is the price that they have paid to be here today and at one moment in history under President Obama, we said. We're going to give you a chance. you've gotta come forward. go through a criminal background. Check pay a substantial fee and we'll give you your chance to stay in the United States on a temporary basis for two years, renewable every two years we won't deport you. And we'll let you take a job and what did they do 790000 of them trusted this government and step forward and signed up many of their parents, warned them don't put your name on that list with the government. It could come back to hurt our families, but they had the courage and the belief that what their government told them was the truth. They came forward and signed up 90 percent of them are working today over half of them are in school today. They are teachers and engineers and members. Military There are Dream of the future. Well this battle for the dreamers in my life by political life began 19 years ago. When I introduced the Dream Act 19 years ago, it's been a long time to make the trip over to the Supreme Court this morning, but there's hardly been a chapter written in the civil rights history of the United States that hasn't taken a long time when you're fighting for Justice. You've gotta be determined and patient the President. Tell us when it comes to immigrants. It's fear. It's hate when I look behind me at these Daca recipients. I don't see that at all I see courage and I see hope and I see the future of the United States of America. Today. we heard the arguments in the Supreme Court. It's my prayer that they'll come down our way for the good of those who stand behind me and so many others, but it's also my prayer that it comes down our way for the good of the United States of America. What's at stake here. Not just their faith. What's at stake, There is our values as Americans immigrants from all over the world who came to this country and said we can make this a better place and thank goodness our parents and grandparents believed that and let us to this moment. now we have to move forward. We know what we face. Bob Menendez. You know what our problem is in the Senate. We've got a good bill. An excellent bill passed by the US House of Representatives. It's sitting on the calendar in the United States, Senate Senator Menendez and I. Be making a unanimous consent request this week to bring this measure to the floor. I can tell you that. I can tell you it's an uphill battle, but we want the other party to go on record when the President said. Let's legislate an issue. Let's legislate an agreement. We're gonna call him at his word. We're gonna ask Senator McConnell to bring this matter to the floor of the Senate this week. I wanna thank Congressman Roy Ball Allard for being here today she and I have been working together on this for some time as their chair of the Hispanic Caucus. and as a real leader on this issue is my honor to turn over them. Frontier Thank you so much Senator any of the senator is correct the young people that are back here. This is who we're fighting for. They are not the people that the President is trying to portray as murderers and rapists. and yet two years ago, the Trump administration truly tried to rip protections away from nearly eight hundred thousand dreamers by abruptly terminating the Daca program. The president's chilling message to immigrant communities across America, left dreamers in a state of uncertainty and fear of being taken away from their family and removed from the only country they call as home. The fact is, and we all know that we we've heard this and we've seen it that the dreamers are American in every way, except on paper, they grew up pledging allegiance to our flag and to our country. There are neighbors our children's teachers, our nurses, our scientists, small business owners, friends and colleagues dreamers serve in our armed forces in defense of our country. They pay taxes and they enhance our society with their talents and the richness of their culture. This country is their home today. The highest court in our land heard their case against Trump's unlawful termination of Daca and it's probiotic. Administration. It is my hope that the Supreme Court recognizes the personal injustice of Trump's administrations actions and rules in favor of Daca recipients. It is also my hope that the court will not ignore the fact that the stories in hopes and dreams of Daca recipients are those of all dreamers in our nation. Hopefully the court will rule to protect Daca recipient. But, as has been said Congress must go further, we must expand protections to all dreamers who deserve an opportunity to become citizens of the only country they know as home in June of this year, Dreamers were given new hope when the House passed my in Congresswoman need of Alaska and your vet. Clark's Bill HR six the Dream and Promise Act of 2019. Which protects dreamers and TPS and D E D recipients as well. Well, it is our hope the Supreme Court will not be complicit in the Trump administration's anti-immigrant agenda. We must continue to be motivated and active in calling on Mitch McConnell and the Senate to pass the Dream and Promise Act. because only then will our nation's dreamers be able to live without fear and continue to. Tribute to the country they love because home is here and now it is my pleasure to turn over the microphone to Senator Menendez, who's also been an incredible supporter for many many years of our dreamers. Thank you Congresswoman as I was sitting in the Supreme Court today listening to the arguments, it reminded me of a meeting that the congressional. Had with then President Obama and at that meeting, I prepared a memorandum a legal memorandum on behalf of the caucus to present to President Obama to say you have the power to actually create what we now know as Daca and after a lot of work with the congressional Hispanic Caucus members, another colleagues we ultimately got President Obama to agree and create. The Daca program I listen to the arguments in the court today and my mind the court should clearly decide in favor of the dreamers. Why is this case reviewable? Well, if you can get 700000 to a million people to rely upon what the government says. Come forward, Give us all of your information go to a criminal background. Check give us the information of your families if that for relief. Is not one that is be sustained or reviewable. Then God knows what is reviewable in our country. So for my perspective, yes, it has a standard for being reviewed by the court and then the question is, is it fair to have a process in which all of those who submitted their lives their information? their most sacred position in this life comes forward and you sniff it out without any detail process to understand what it means and what that reliant. Meant and the consequences that flow not just for dreamers, but for all of those who support the dreamers, those who have hired them, those universities that have given them admission those in fact, in which their ultimately creating a better future for all Americans and then finally is it legal. My God you know it's clear to me that President Obama or anyone else had the discretion to the side how they're gonna use the resources of the federal government away to ensure. At these young people who through no fault of their own brought to this country by their parents, ultimately, the only flag they've ever pledged allegiance to is that of the United States, the only National anthem they know is the Star-Spangled Banner. The only country they've ever called home unknown as home is America home is here in every respect. the only difference for the many of them have served in the uniform of the United States. Imagine saying to those who won the uniform and risk their life on behalf of the United States that you. Not ultimately able to continue to defend the nation. You are not worthy of ultimately be given a temporary status. Some considerable in my mind also illegal. so at the end of the day, I hope the cart ultimately decides for us, but I agree with my colleague. Senator Durbin who's been on this issue for nearly two decades. when we pass as the gang of eight comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate with over 67 votes only to die and then the. It can control the House of Representatives. we had the best Dreamer package that ever was envisioned would have given all of these young people, their pathway to a clear future and on behalf of the United States. Unfortunately never got about I sat in the White House. when President Trump says, I wanna treat these people young people with love well love like that. We don't need because at the end of the day when you ended the program not the court when you ended the program and when you. On a pathway that puts all of these young people at risk, then that's not love and when you ask us to be to take their parents and choose their parents and their loved ones over them. I haven't met a Dreamer yet who's told me to do that. so it's just fundamentally wrong with the administration is doing Congress has the right and the power to challenge the executive branch and say we have a different view. Let's pass the legislation. I'm gonna join Senator Durbin let's see who stands. The Dream and who wants to sniff it out. I hope we get. I know we have virtually every Democrat will stand with us in support of the Dream and hopefully some enlightened Republicans and then let the President decide as he wants to snuff out the Dream or does he really love the dreamers with that? I'm pleased to introduce the assistant Speaker Ben Ray Lujan. Well, good afternoon everyone. President said he was gonna treat our brothers and sisters the dreamers with heart. The coolness that we continue to see coming from this administration, the hateful rhetoric and policies coming from Stephen Miller. They're not American. It lacks the moral compass of what America was founded on this Dream. This delicate idea that we could come from all over the world and contribute to this special place building opportunity looking after our families and our loved ones and opening up doors for future generations behind us. That's what dreamers represent they represent the highest of the. American ideals that we cherish every day, so why is it that Stephen Miller and President Trump continue with this hateful rent? Not heard mister President. Tables. Why don't you have a heart? but there's an opportunity. An opportunity now for the Supreme Court to do the right thing. Uphold what's happened with the lower courts. The courts have all done the right thing. They've stood by the American people by the way what the President is up to this morning. with those ugly tweets, he's trying to diminish public support for these amazing men and women behind me, Moms and dads, brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors co-workers. Let's do the right thing. Let's pray for the Supreme Court. let's pray for the country. let's pray for these dreamers, but what we need for the American people to do is something that we learned from Congressman John Lewis. Make some noise speak up show up stand up If you don't know a Dreamer just open your eyes get to know them tell their story and I wanna close with this. I had the honor of meeting Sam today, a Dreamer from New Mexico recent graduate from New Mexico State University who talked about how you can't go see his grandma his mom. Who lived just miles away from where he lives in the United States of America. If you support family values across the country, support the Dreamers open your eyes and get to know why we're in this together with that. I wanna turn this over to one of my colleagues Congresswoman Sanchez from California. Thank you, Ben Ray and I wanna give a big. thank you to everybody who has come out here to stand up against this attack on dreamers and on Daca recipients not all of us here today our dreamers, but I bet that each person in this room knows or has met a person whose life literally depends on this decision. Dreamers aren't strangers. There are teachers our classmates entrepreneurs members of the military. And our neighbors and don't you think that they deserve to live without fear. they don't deserve to be stuck in limbo just because of the president's Petty politics, the only place that they call home is the United States of America that shouldn't be controversial. It's just a fact, but you know what this administration doesn't like facts and they don't seem to like rules or laws or following the rules either. The Supreme Court has the opportunity to enforce the rules and to follow the law. The Supreme Court has the ability to defend our democracy and our system of checks and balances. The only fact that Trump knows is that he wins when he pits some Americans against others. But we won't let that divide us. We won't turn our backs on our neighbors. We cannot let that synthesis them win. A House divided up against itself Cannot stand now Daca, admittedly has never been enough to protect our dreamers in the long run. It's a temporary solution, but right now, it's all that these outstanding young men and women have these young people are American in every single way, except for on paper, they're just as American as those relatives who arrived on the Mayflower. They are just as American as you and I and they deserve. Simple protection you know President Trump is very fond about talking about a merit-based immigration system, but I can't think of a group that is more Meritorious than the young men and women that stand behind me. Dreamers have succeeded in this country. Despite every obstacle that has been put in their path, they contribute to our communities every single day despite the repeated attacks by people who don't know or want to know them and by our President. All eyes are on the Supreme Court today in the hopes that they will uphold the rule of law. They have a chance to protect our dreamers and descend a message that America is not a monarchy. no matter what happens. Please know that we are in your corner. We are in this fight. We will continue to fight to protect Daca and to the dreamers who's only home is here. I wanna thank. Everybody who's come out in support of dreamers and of building this country and making it great. and with that, I'd like to introduce a colleague from the Senate from the Great State of Nevada, Senator Cortez Masto. Thank you first of all, let me just thank all of my colleagues, but most importantly, the dreamers are standing behind us. They're not merely a backdrop. This is in what you see here are the faces of the people and the families that live across this country in Nevada, there are 12000 almost 12000, Daca recipients and what we heard today is the Supreme Court. Actually taking oral arguments on the fate of 700000 dreamers across this country, but I'm here to tell you and I think we all are that it shouldn't come down to the Supreme Court making this determination and I hope they do the right thing, but it comes down to all of us in this country, not whether we're in Congress but in the administration or in our individual lives in our communities, all of us doing right. By these kids that you see behind us their families and everyone across the country who is a dreamer. I can't tell you how many stories that are out there of the real life and the impact I know it's easy when we get back here to Washington we get in this bubble. We make decisions that have a determination on so many people across this country, but those decisions that we make have real life impacts on the story. The real lives of the people and the dreamers that you see before you. These aren't just faces these aren't just names. These are individuals living in our community who just want an opportunity to succeed. They are hard working. They're working two jobs. They're getting an education. They are law abiding. They are helping their families and we are telling them you do all of that. Oh and by the way we're gonna deport you that is outrageous. That is not what our country is built on. That's not who we are as Americans. But most importantly, that's not what we should be doing to the best and brightest in the future for our country. It is time for us to do the right thing and here's here's here's my offer this administration. Whether it's the President or the people around him want to play politics with the lives of dreamers and their families. We've seen it time and time again. But here's my one offer mister President. If you truly love dreamers and you want to do right by them their families in this country, then I offer to you to come with me and sit down with some dreamers and talk with them. learn who they are listen to their stories and you will understand like the rest of us that they are an integral part of who we are as a country as Americans as United States and what we have done. After years, open our doors to the best and brightest because what you have behind us are the best and brightest so I make that offer do the right thing. We will all continue to fight for our dreamers and their families and across this country and I thank you all for being here in the fight and I look forward to continuing to fight with all of you. Thank you. I hope I got my instructions right on the order here. we have of course our two wonderful leaders of our two chambers and it's my honor now to introduce a gentleman from New York who has been fighting for dreamers for many years now and Daca recipients for many years now in the United States, Senate, and that is New York Senator and Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. So, ladies and gentlemen, we often ask these days with so much tumult in the land. What is America? This is America all the people here. This is our hope. This is our future. This is our Dream these people. they're what makes America a great country and people like them who have come here decade after decade and century after century. They are our future. If we don't have people like these young people as American citizens America will not have the future. It will be anywhere close to his bright as our past. We've always been a nation of immigrants from the very early days. We have always treasured immigrants from the very early days and all of a sudden we have a President who thinks he can gain political ground by attacking these beautiful kids and that so many millions of others like them who come from around. To live the American Dream. We are hopeful that the court the Supreme Court. Shine a light on us, we'll understand the right thing to do will understand that a President who wants to violate the law and trample on the rights of people like the folks behind us is so wrong that in a nation where there's rule of law, he will be rebuffed and they will be allowed to stay here and become citizens. That's what we hope the President. Relentless scapegoating of immigrants is the most Un-American thing I could think of. My Middle name is Ellis named for Ellis Island. They didn't cross Ellis come through Ellis Island, but it's the same thing. Southern Border and Ellis Island and is it is the same a symbol of hope of freedom of a bright future. We the dentist, Senate Democrats and the House Democrats will not rest until the Dreamers behind us and the millions like them whether they be dreamers or others become full fledged proud American citizen. Whoo. I'm supposed to there's the introducing I am. Alright, Before we hear from Speaker Pelosi, we're gonna hear from a few of our dreamers, our doctor recipients and the first person that we're gonna hear from is Delilah. Oh sorry please. Thank you for being here today has been a historic day for so many in a day filled with so many emotions. But the primary emotion that I have been feeling over the strenuous fight for Daca has been that of confusion. I am confused 80 - six percent of Americans support a right to residency for Daca. recipients 80 - six percent of There are very few things that have an 80 - six percent approval rate. I don't even think ice cream has an 80 - six percent approval rate yet, despite an overwhelming amount of support for Daca recipients like myself who continue to contribute to America's academia and America's economy, the executive branch wants to take it away. The legislative branch has yet to sign a bill and the judicial So I am genuinely confused. Daca recipients contribute one point four billion dollars in federal taxes alone every year. Another one point seven in state taxes. We generate 40 - two billion dollars in GDP every year, while the cost of removing Daca recipients from this country alone would be 10 billion dollars. These are young individuals who have a nearly spotless record in addition to being enrolled in school or These are individuals who are completely integrated into America as the average age that Daca recipients come to the United States is only six years old. Many Daca recipients did not even know that they are undocumented until they were teenagers. I was born in Canada and came to the United States. When I was five years old, I went to school in America from K through 12. I spend another four years in America going to College and now I'm in my third year of law school at the UCLA School of Law learning. Of the United States of America, both of my parents are American citizens. My only sibling is an American citizen and I am undocumented and somehow my government is arguing that I don't belong here. Well, my question then to my government is where do I belong? Is it the country that I spent the first five years of my life? Is it the country that I haven't been to in over 20 years. Do you understand now why I am confused you maybe. Why or how I am even undocumented when my parents became permanent residents in 2009, they applied for my citizenship. At that time. I was 14 years old while he was in documented, I still had a pathway to citizenship through my parents that I was patiently waiting for and in the meantime I received Daca when I turned 18, which allowed me to work and get a driver's license and pay in state tuition for College. My parents received their American citizenship less than two weeks after I turned 20 - one and that should have been a day filled with joy But technically, when I turned 20 - one under the law, I was no longer considered my parent's child and my application was terminated. We begged for the USCIS to make an exception, but our request fell on deaf ears. The only way I could renew my application was to go back to Canada, but then I would be barred from coming back to the US for 10 years. So Daca was my only option and Daca remains my only option and now my only option to stay in the I know as home is in jeopardy. if Daca were to be rescinded, I would be left with over $100000 in private student loan debt since I was not eligible for federal financial aid and unable to use the skills that I paid tuition to acquire because I'm only verse in American jurisprudence. I know nothing about Canadian law because I've never lived a year there that I could remember. I don't even know anyone in Canada. My entire life is here there is virtually. Different between me and an American citizen. besides a piece of paper, not only do I want to be here, but almost 90 percent of my country wants me to be here too. So I am confused, but I am not that does not mean that I am not hopeful, nor does it mean that I have given up so I'm here to ask everyone who is listening to the Congress members to the Supreme Court justices to the President of the United States. Let's find a solution. This problem, let's be on the right side of history sooner than later the time for common sense. Immigration reform is now thank you. Next I wanted to invite up as Matilda Tovar. I'm a little short so bear with me just a second. For 20 - one years, I have been pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. I came to this country when I was just two years old, so the United States is really the only country I've ever known. It's the place where I learn to speak a second language, The man that taught me how to speak. English is not an American citizen. I work with my father for his catering and event business, as well as as a certified medication aid at a senior Living Center where I'm studying to become a nurse. I'm Another bachelor degree in ethics. it is also america america is why have fun and love with my best friend it's working on merit and why was first you have pursued my daughter rose my husband my call is a specialist in the cancer army national card in last year he was called to active d service in the middle east for nine months overseas were he saved his country i was a home king for now three year old daughter going to school And working those nine months when my husband was away were hard as any single parent can appreciate. but to do so with the constant fear that I wouldn't be home when my husband got home was almost unbearable. Parents worry it is something that is almost impossible to avoid when you love someone as much as apparent loves their child. But now imagine imagine having to develop a deportation plan while your husband is literally. Thousands of miles away that fear will swallow you uphold my husband fought for everyone in this country for your rights as a citizen, My rights as an immigrant and asylum seekers plea for help a better tomorrow and the freedom of this country. yet his own country will ensure that his own wife and mother of his child is protected from deported. The decision that my parents made to bring me to this country is something that I will never be able to thank them enough for as a mother. I know that I would have made the same choice. I can guarantee you that there's at least one person in your life, whether it's a spouse, a sibling, a friend, a co-worker or a neighbor that is directly affected by the current immigration crisis. Daca. Me a future a chance to advocate for my community and a chance to work and go to school. Just imagine when my Daca expired and I was waiting for my renewal to come in for two and a half weeks, I had absolutely no status. I couldn't go to work and I couldn't go to school and I couldn't even renew my tags because you need a non-expert license for that. The Supreme Court will now decide whether I am allowed to remain in this country. whether I will be separated from my daughter and husband and sent to a country that I barely remember, I want the justices to hear my story. Sorry, I lost track and I want every member of Congress to understand what the years of inaction has meant for my family and to call on them to finally fix our broken immigration system, not just for me but for the millions of immigrants across the country with no opportunity to get in line and earn a pathway to citizenship because no matter the decision from this court or inaction in Congress, I know that I am right where. Along my home is here, thank you. Alright and next we have Antonio. good afternoon everyone. My name is Antonio. I am in plate. I'm plaintiff in the make the road case and the Martin Battaglia case I came to the US at the age of 10 when my parents in 2012 due to the death of my grandparents, my parents decided to return to Mexico. I but I decided to stay here to fight for the for their dreams and mind two years ago. I graduated different Queens College in New York, making the first one in my phone. Brother from College for the opportunity to work legally and ultimately live without the fear of deportation for many of us here. This is the only home we know we have friends, connections, family and loved ones. even though my families is in Mexico, I consider Jackson Heights in Queens, New York My home. I went to school they are. I have friends. I have my friends here and I plan to have kids in my community. If the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration's plan to unlawfully and Daca and move forward, it means that we will lose our jobs that my efforts to get an education and a College degree in a way will be in vain because I won't be able to use it and contribute to my community. Doctor has benefited almost a million people like me. It is a success successful program and should be maintained. However, we know that it is not the ultimate solution on documentary. Of this country deserve more every single day we we contribute to the economy to the culture and into our communities. Therefore, we also need to be a knowledge as a citizens of this country. today. I hope the court so the human aspect of Daca because the young numbers and statistics what is a stake is a life of Melissa from documented people like myself. I hope they also remind themselves that this nation was built and must be continue to be a place that welcomes the contributions of immigrants and just before I go. Wanna remind our elected officials that we are here and you see all these beautiful faces and courageous faces, but it's because of our parents apparent sacrifices. It's not because they we shouldn't be blaming our parents because their decisions are are the decisions that they make the best for it for ourselves and we wouldn't be here standing with you all without without the sacrifices of our parents. so our home is here. Thank you. Antonio Thank you to all of our dreamers. Those who spoke and those who are here present with us today. Thank you for your courage for your bravery and for your resilience and you inspire all of us and now it's my. It's my honor to introduce our final Speaker who is the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and she is somebody who when she was a Speaker, the first time her first go around pass the Dream Act out of the House of Representatives and. Speaker. The second time has now passed again, a Dream Act and TPS bill, and we await Mitch McConnell taking it up in the Senate. This is a this is somebody who in this legislative chamber in this Congress has been committed every day to make sure that the dreamers and the Daca recipients are protected. Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Thank you Mister chairman and thank you for bringing us all together so that we can say thank you to our dreamers for Meric making America more American with their hopes optimism courage determination to make the future better for their families and that for that we are grateful to their parents. Please thank your parents for us to was mentioned by Antonio for giving us the opportunity to have you in our country. I'm honored to be here with the distinguished chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Mister Castro with the Godmother of the Dream Act. Congresswoman Lucille Allard chairman now of the Homeland Security Committee to be with our distinguished Attorney General of California, our former colleague and a champion on this issue in the Congress and now in the courts of Brazil with Durbin. I don't know if he's still here but he is the dedicated a good deal of his official life on behalf of the dreamers because he knows that the Dream what's good for the dreamers is good for America. others have been. Senator Menendez Assistant Speaker Senator Cortez Masto Representative Sanchez and I just want to acknowledge also Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, Congresswoman Barragan Congressman Carbajal Congressman Correa and Congressman Chewie Garcia, among others who have joined us now now here we are on this day. That should be a very hopeful one for our country where the Supreme Court of the United States will make a decision to either cause pain or find a solution. by upholding what we think is the right thing to do just to put it in perspective of Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan. This is not a partisan issue President Reagan when he was President after the Congress passed a comprehensive immigration bill with 1980 - six, he said to Congress, you didn't go far enough and he instituted family fairness, which protected a higher percentage To our country, then the President Obama's Daca order. Higher present if your Congress had acted, he said, We should do more he President George Herbert Walker Bush President Clinton President George W Bush President Obama all subscribed to that except this President, but she's so sad. And now this court has to decide as to whether President Obama was correct in following the lead of President Reagan and protecting newcomers in our country or to support the. Act of President Trump and what he did. We urge the court to support the lower courts decisions on this. We urge the court to do that. and as Justice Sotomayor talked about this morning about how much pain would they cause in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in our country. This is an important day and we hope and pray that the courts will do the right thing. The all American thing, however, at the. Time we are going over to the Senate. I invite my colleagues to join me as we go over to the Senate to bring a two leader. McConnell HR six. If I just May H, R six, was passed over 160 days ago, The American Dream and Promise Act, which, of course, is a remedy for our dreamers and our temporary protected status newcomers relatively newcomers to our country. This is a bill that has passed it has overwhelming support as has been mentioned. Dora mentioned that and as Miranda and her beautiful statement and Antonio, they are manifestation of the of the greatness of our dreamers, but also of the support that they have in our country and in the communities in which they live. so again my colleagues, we are only members of Congress allowed to with other with the centers to March over with this. For some reason the rules do not. Our dreamers to March with us but But I mean people walk down the Hall all the time right in any event in any event. This is a time of great. We see everything as an opportunity and this Dream act as we saw on the capital of the steps of the Supreme Court, this morning, hundreds of young people turning out and friends to support them and one of the signs that I love all of them were wonderful home is here being one of them, but one of the signs that say you might say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only. But we want you to know that you're not the only ones being dreamers. We have dreams for you as well and we hopefully intend to act upon them until a senator leader Schumer said earlier. We're not going away until the job is done. so thank you. Thank you for your courage. Thank you for dreaming because that is part of what America is. Thank you all very much and thank you mister chairman again. Thank you. So much. We have another. Thank you. Thank you I appreciate.











