MEDIA ADVISORY: After Supreme Court Oral Arguments, Senate And House Democrats to Address President Trump’s Attack On DACA Recipients

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol, Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Assistant Speaker of the House Ben Ray Luján (D-NM-3), Dream and Promise Act Author Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40), and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will join plaintiffs in the upcoming DACA case before the U.S. Supreme Court and immigration advocates to call on the Trump administration to reverse their baseless termination of DACA and the Republican controlled Senate to pass legislation that would offer a permanent legislative path to citizenship for Dreamers.

Approximately 700,000 DACA recipients are currently living in limbo ahead of November 12, 2019, when the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether the Trump administration's September 5, 2017, termination of the DACA program was unlawful. Over the last two years, an extended legal battle has kept DACA renewals open for young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, and the program has been tremendously successful, benefiting Dreamers and their families while also strengthening communities across the country, and the entire American economy.

WHO:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

CHC Chairman Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20)

Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ)

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)

Assistant Speaker of the House Ben Ray Luján (D-NM-3)

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40), Author of H.R. 6, The Dream and Promise Act

Rep. Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38), CHC Immigration Task Force Chair

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

WHEN:

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 2:30 p.m.

WHERE:

Rayburn Room, U.S. Capitol

Event will stream live here.

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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.