Texas, United States
A bill seeking citizenship for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children by their undocumented parents, known as “dreamers“And the beneficiaries of programs like the TPS and the DED returned this Tuesday to Congress, which has already received immigration reform from President Joe Biden.
“Today I am pleased to re-present the # leydesueñoypromesa, # HR6, with Nydia Velázquez and Rep. Yvette Clarke,” Democratic Congresswoman for California Lucille Roybal-Allard noted on her Twitter account.
“To provide – he added in separate messages in Spanish and English – to our dreamers, beneficiaries of TPS and DED permanent protections and a path to citizenship.”
The proposal, named “Law of Dream and Promise“, Seeks to protect more than 2.1 million” dreamers “and some 400,000 immigrants covered by Temporary Protection Status (TPS) and Deferred Forced Exit (DED) – the latter benefit in force only for Liberia and Venezuela. according to the legislature.
“Dreamers are our hard-working friends, neighbors and family, and they strengthen our communities and our nation. As we work to pass immigration reform, it is essential that we provide them with protections and a path to citizenship in this country.” , he defended.
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In June 2019, the lower house had given its endorsement to a bill designed for those protected by the Deferred Action Programs for Children (DACA) – which welcomes “dreamers” -, the TPS and DED to access to American citizenship, but the initiative was stalled in the Senate, then controlled by Republicans.
Biden called for the proposed immigration reform that he presented to Congress on its first day in the White House the legal residence of “immediate” and three years later citizenship for “dreamers,” the beneficiaries of the TPS and immigrant agricultural workers.
The DACA program was enacted on June 15, 2012 by then-US President Barack Obama (2009-2017), and his successor, Donald Trump (2017-2021), tried to end it, but the Supreme Court he kept him standing.
the TPS, Created in 1990 by the US Congress, grants permits to remain in the country to citizens from nations affected by war, victims of violence or natural disasters. This initiative has mostly welcomed nationals of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sudan and Haiti.
The DED program is similar to TPS and postpones the deportation of people who could be in danger of being sent to countries where there is political instability or natural disasters.
During the day, different organizations ProInmigrants and companies such as Google, IBM, Amazon and Visa, agglutinated under the so-called “American Dream Coalition,” spoke out in favor of the law in a letter to the head of the Democratic majority, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and the Republican minority leader Mitch McConnnell.
“This vital legislation was passed in the last Congress with bipartisan support, and there is no reason why Democrats and Republicans cannot unite and quickly pass this bill again,” Todd Schulte said in a statement. , president of FWD.us, an immigrant advocacy group co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and other technology leaders.