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John -- Imagine being threatened with deportation from the only country you’ve ever known. Most of the people currently covered under the DACA program were brought here when they were small children, and have never been back to their birth countries.
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A federal judge in Houston has just declared that Obama’s DACA order was an overreach of executive authority. The judge stated that all persons currently in the US under the DACA program are safe from deportation for now, but he has ordered that the Department of Homeland Security is temporarily prohibited from approving any new applications.
The xenophobic Trump administration may have ended, but immigrants in this country aren’t feeling any more secure. In fact, the DACA program created through executive order by President Obama was always going to make these young people’s status vulnerable.
It’s the job of Congress to write and pass laws, and as one of the most critical issues facing our nation, we have got to solve our immigration system. The failure of Congress to act on immigration is the reason that people are stuck in limbo, and at the mercy of a legally shaky executive order that will inevitably make its way to the Supreme Court.
It is past time for us to elect more progressive representatives who often hail from immigrant communities; working class leaders who have the political courage to take a stand on immigration. [[link removed]]
We’ve got a critical special election in just over two weeks. Once we help get Nina Turner elected to represent Ohio’s 11th Congressional district, Brand New Congress will immediately pivot to helping the rest of our slate prepare for 2022 -- a midterm election cycle that will define the remainder of the decade.
We know solving immigration is an economic and moral imperative. And it’s not the only critical issue facing our nation. We must elect people to Congress who take their jobs seriously. Right now, too many representatives are satisfied with political jockeying and partisan infighting -- we must do better than this.
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For the people,
Adrienne Bell
Executive Director
Brand New Congress
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We are building yet another strong slate of progressives for 2022. Pitch in today and join us as we take over Congress and return power to the people.
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