Tag: Dream Act

Democrats introduce latest version of DREAM Act, offering protection to more young immigrants

The Dream and Promise Act will for the first time include protections for TPS and DED holders.

Eighteen years after the original Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, was introduced, House Democrats formally unveiled their new-and-improved version Tuesday.

While previous iterations of the bill focused narrowly on providing a path to citizenship only for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children, the new version does this in addition to expanding it to include immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED). With the inclusion of TPS and DED recipients, the DREAM Act has rebranded to the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, to reflect the government’s longtime goal to make good on its promise of providing permanent solutions to legal immigrants who have been living at the whims of the federal government for decades. Continue reading “Democrats introduce latest version of DREAM Act, offering protection to more young immigrants”

DACA reaction shows how immigration has become a litmus test for Democrats

The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website September 6, 2017:

THE BIG IDEA: The House passed a Dream Act in 2010 that would have allowed illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship if they entered the United States as children, graduated from high school or got an equivalent degree, and had been in the United States for at least five years.

Five moderate Democrats in the Senate voted no. If each of them had supported it, the bill would have become law, DACA would have been unnecessary, and this manufactured political crisis now facing Congress would have been averted. Continue reading “DACA reaction shows how immigration has become a litmus test for Democrats”