Texas, United States
A bill that envisages the citizenship of immigrants brought to the US as children by their undocumented parents, known as “dreamersAnd beneficiaries of programs such as TPS and DED returned to Congress on Tuesday, which has already received immigration reform from President Joe Biden.
“Today I am delighted to re-present # lawdesueñoypromesa, # HR6, with Nydia Velázquez and Representative Yvette Clarke,” said Lucille Roybal-Allard, California’s Democratic Congressman, on her Twitter account.
“To provide permanent protection and a path to citizenship for our dreamers, beneficiaries of TPS and DED,” he added in two posts in Spanish and English. “
The proposal, baptized “Dream and Promise Law“seeks to protect more than 2.1 million” dreamers “and about 400,000 immigrants under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Delayed Forced Departure (DED) – the latest allowance, according to the legislature, only applies to Liberia and Venezuela.
“The dreamers are our friends, neighbors and family who work hard and strengthen our communities and our country. As we work to push through immigration reform, it is essential that we protect them and provide a path to citizenship in this country” , he defended.
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In June 2019, the House of Representatives passed a bill designed to allow those covered by the Deferred Action for the Arrival of Children (DACA) programs – which pertain to the “dreamers” – the TPS and DED to acquire, but the initiative stalled. in the Senate, then controlled by the Republicans.
In the immigration reform bill he submitted to Congress on his first day in the White House, Biden asked for “immediate” legal residence and three years later for citizenship for “dreamers,” TPS recipients and immigrant farm workers.
The DACA program was introduced 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 upheld it.
The TPSFounded in 1990 by the United States Congress, it grants residency permits to citizens of countries affected by war, victims of violence, or natural disasters. This initiative has mainly received nationals of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sudan and Haiti.
The DED program is similar to TPS and it makes it possible to postpone the deportation of people at risk of being sent to countries with political instability or natural disasters.
Different organizations during the day pro-immigrants and companies such as Google, IBM, Amazon and Visa, grouped under the so-called “Coalition for the American Dream,” spoke out before the law in a letter addressed to Democratic Majority Leader, Senator Chuck Schumer, and Republican Minority Leader. , Mitch McConnnell.
“This vital legislation was passed with bipartisan support at the last Congress, and there is no reason Democrats and Republicans cannot get together and re-approve this bill quickly,” Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, said in a statement. immigrant advocacy group co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and other tech leaders.