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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Joseph Rendeiro
(202) 776-1776
jrendeiro@nclr.org
Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed the “ENFORCE Act” (H.R. 4138) and the “Faithful Execution of the Law Act” (H.R. 3973), legislation designed to limit President Obama’s executive powers. The bills cited the need to prevent the president from using his legitimate prosecutorial discretion to provide relief for undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as children and meet a series of requirements. These bills would essentially eviscerate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has granted temporary deportation relief to DREAMers. They would also prevent relief available to U.S. servicemen and servicewomen who have undocumented immediate family members.
“There is a humanitarian crisis in communities across the nation that the House of Representatives can solve with action on immigration reform. Instead, they have added insult to injury by trying to destroy the little relief available to military families caught in our immigration chaos, as well as to young immigrants who know no other country as their own,” said Janet Murguía, President and CEO of NCLR (National Council of La Raza). “In this latest move, House Republicans and a handful of Democrats are demonstrating that they are not only out of step with Latino voters, they are out of step with the majority of the country. There is only one way to describe it: shameful.”
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