Team —
Our community, like many others across the country, flourishes because of hard-working immigrants. North Carolina is home to thousands of children and young adults who came to the United States at an early age as dependents of their parents.
Known as Dreamers, these young folks grow up here, go to American schools, and call the U.S. their home. They’re American in every way — except on paper. On their 21st birthday, their dependent visas expire and without a pathway to citizenship, they are forced to self-deport to a country they often don’t even remember.
My colleagues and I are dead-set on changing this precedent. Last year, I introduced the bipartisan America’s CHILDREN Act to ensure documented Dreamers can stay in the only home they’ve known by securing a pathway to citizenship.
Now more than ever, a pathway to citizenship is critical to protect more than 200,000 young adults, whose lives are under attack by self-interested Republicans in Congress.
We all deserve access to the American dream, folks. If you’re with me, join me in calling on Congress to build a pathway to citizenship for documented Dreamers.
There’s a lot of work ahead of us in order to fix our broken immigration system, but it’s all worth it to protect those who make our country a better place.
Thanks for signing on.
— Deborah
