CHC Chair Statement on Trump Administration’s Immigration Principles

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chairwoman Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) released the following after the Trump Administration released immigration principles Sunday evening:

"The President's draconian and anti-immigrant principles jeopardize the bi-partisan, bi-cameral progress that has been made to pass a legislative solution that will protect the nearly 800,000 Dreamers. It is immoral for the President to use the lives of these young people as bargaining chips in his quest to impose his cruel, anti-immigrant and un-American agenda on our nation. We urge the President and his administration to act in good faith and to stand with the vast majority of the American people who support an earned path to citizenship for Dreamers, and oppose using tax dollars to build a border wall. Every day that the President and House Republicans scuttle and delay a vote on the Dream Act is a day that DACA recipients fall out of status and could be subject to deportation. There is no time to waste."

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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), founded in December 1976, is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed under the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. The CHC is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories.