CHC Chair Statement on White House DACA Meeting
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November 2, 2017
Washington D.C. – Today, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) issued the following statement after reports surfaced that President Trump and Senate Republicans agreed to not attach a DACA fix to the year-end spending bill:
"At stake are the lives of 800,000 young American patriots who are at the mercy of Republican backroom deals. It is reprehensible that the President and Senate Republicans would devise a scheme to hold the Dream Act hostage. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is united with Americans across the country who agree that these young American Dreamers have earned their chance to live, learn, contribute, and work in the only country that they've ever known. A clean bipartisan, bicameral Dream Act is the solution and should be taken up for a vote without delay. The CHC will work for as long as it takes to get this done before this Congress goes home for the holidays."
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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.