Pelosi: Speaker must bring the DREAM Act to the floor

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 09/05/17 12:39 PM EDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called on House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to bring the DREAM Act to the floor for a vote following President Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

In a statement following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement about DACA, Pelosi called the decision “deeply shameful” and “heartless.”

“The President’s cruel and heartless decision to start deporting DREAMers in six months demands an immediate response from the Republican Congress,” Pelosi said. “Speaker Ryan and the Republican House leadership must bring the DREAM Act to the floor for a vote without delay.” Pelosi said the deportation of DREAMers will devastate “the lives of hundreds of thousands of patriotic young people.”

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“President Trump’s decision to end DACA is a deeply shameful act of political cowardice and a despicable assault on innocent young people in communities across America,” the Minority Leader said. “Deporting DREAMers means destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of patriotic young people, costing the economy billions and betraying the fundamental values of the American Dream.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/349226-pelosi-speaker-must-bring-the-dream-act-to-the-floor

[Va Lefty]

1. Ryan will not allow a vote on DACA

It would cost him his Speakership. The only thing Ryan truly cares about is himself. Ask Eric Cantor how a reasonable position on immigration plays to the republican base.

[Trust Buster]

2. Oh he will, attached to funding for a wall. Screw Congress. Fight this in the courts.