Into the Future of DREAMers
Into America
Trymaine Lee, MS NOW
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, everybody. |
| 0:09.6 | This morning Secretary DePolitan will announce new actions my administration will take to |
| 0:14.9 | mend our nation's immigration policy, to make it more fair, more efficient, and more |
| 0:21.8 | just, specifically for certain young people sometimes called dreamers. |
| 0:28.8 | That was eight years ago, June of 2012, President Obama in the Rose Garden announcing a program |
| 0:34.8 | that would affect hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people who came to the |
| 0:39.0 | U.S. as children. |
| 0:41.2 | Now these are young people who study in our schools. |
| 0:45.4 | They play in our neighborhoods, their friends with our kids. |
| 0:50.5 | They pledge allegiance to our flag. |
| 0:53.8 | There are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one, on paper. |
| 1:02.9 | Now they could stay without fear of being deported. |
| 1:06.5 | These young people could apply for protection under a program known as DACA, deferred action |
| 1:11.6 | for childhood arrivals. |
| 1:13.1 | A temporary step in so Congress passed more permanent immigration reform. |
| 1:17.1 | Now let's be clear, this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. |
| 1:23.0 | This is not a path to citizenship. |
| 1:26.0 | It's not a permanent fix. |
| 1:28.2 | This is a temporary stop-get measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving |
| 1:33.4 | a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people. |
| 1:40.9 | But three years ago, I'm here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was |
| 1:46.6 | effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded. |
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