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Poll: Nearly 9 in 10 Americans Support a Program for Dreamers to Stay

The following article by Griffin Connolly was posted on the Roll Call website September 26, 2017:

Lawmakers working to find a solution by Trump’s deadline

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A woman holds up a sign during a rally supporting DACA outside the White House in Washington, September 4, 2017.

Nearly nine in 10 Americans support a program that allows undocumented childhood immigrants to remain in the United States, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found.

Eighty-six percent of respondents said they supported some kind of program for “undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States if they arrived here as a child, completed high school or military service and have not been convicted of a serious crime.”

Consensus on how to handle the legal status of these immigrants spanned the ideological spectrum. Ninety-six percent of self-identified liberals, 87 percent of moderates, and 77 percent of conservatives supported a program for them to remain in the country. Continue reading “Poll: Nearly 9 in 10 Americans Support a Program for Dreamers to Stay”

Republican-Controlled House of Representatives failing to take action as critical children’s health care programs set to expire

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Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Chairman Ken Martin today called on Representatives Erik Paulsen, Jason Lewis, and Tom Emmer along with their colleagues in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to step up and take immediate action to fund critical children’s health insurance programs before they run out of funding.

 “While Republicans temporarily called off efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, it’s unfortunately still too soon to say they didn’t take away health care from millions of Americans,” DFL Chairman Martin said. “Amid their frantic efforts to undermine our health care system, Republicans dropped the ball on funding health care programs critical to the health of millions of children.” Continue reading “Republican-Controlled House of Representatives failing to take action as critical children’s health care programs set to expire”