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Press Release

 

For Immediate Release   
Contact: Dan Gordon ,
617-651-0841  
September 14, 2023 

**Republican Voters Want Dreamer Protections Now**  

**WASHINGTON, D.C. **- Yesterday U.S. District Judge Andrew S.
Hanen of Texas ruled that the Biden administration's new rule
codifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is not lawful,
bringing DACA a step closer to its potential end.   

The decision is likely to be appealed but faces tough odds in the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The court already found the
original DACA program to have been unlawful
 in
an earlier decision.  

Nearly 600,000 DACA recipients are studying or working in the U.S.,
including in industries such as health care and education in which
worker shortages are an ongoing and serious challenge.  

"Congress must get off the sidelines," said 

**Jennie Murray, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum**.
"A permanent, legislative solution would provide certainty not only
to DACA recipients but also to their families, employers, communities
and schools.  

"About 80% of Republican voters
 want
Republicans and Democrats to work together on solutions for people
already here and contributing, such as Dreamers, as part of targeted
border and immigration reforms. With such broad support, Congress
should come to the table now.  

"Without action from Congress, DACA recipients, their employers and
their communities face an ever more tenuous future. Families and
neighbors face the very real possibility that their loved ones will be
forced to retreat into the shadows or return to countries they have
never called home." 

Americans' overwhelming support for solutions for Dreamers, in
addition to border and immigration reforms that reflect American values,
is apparent in polling this year from the National Immigration Forum
and The Bullfinch Group. In May
,
82% of registered voters, including 80% of Republicans, said they agree
that "As the U.S. works to restore order at the border, it is important
that Republicans and Democrats work together to pass immigration reforms
that address labor shortages and inflation, and protect people already
here and contributing."

And in February
, 76%
of registered voters, including 74% of Republicans, said
they support "Republicans and Democrats working together on
immigration reforms that strengthen border security, allow immigrants
brought to the United States as children to earn citizenship, and ensure
a legal, reliable workforce for America's farmers and ranchers." 

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