WASHINGTON, DC – FWD.us President Todd Schulte issued the next assertion at this time on the reintroduction of the American Dream and Promise Act, very important laws that may create a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and TPS holders:
“Given the pressing menace going through DACA recipients and TPS holders, as each insurance policies make their method by the courts, we’re more than happy to see the American Dream and Promise Act reintroduced at this time. This very important laws handed the final Congress with bipartisan assist, and there’s no motive why Democrats and Republicans can’t come collectively and swiftly move this invoice once more.
“People overwhelmingly assist defending these communities, who’ve lived, labored, and constructed households within the U.S. for many years. Thousands and thousands are serving to maintain meals on our tables and caring for the sick as important frontline staff. Their contributions are very important to our nation’s continued public well being and financial restoration from COVID-19, however and not using a pathway to citizenship, DACA recipients and TPS holders stay prone to being ripped out of their jobs and separated from their households. On the similar time, no laws is with out room for enchancment. This invoice doesn’t present a pathway to citizenship for the complete undocumented inhabitants, and we urge the authors to not additional exclude individuals who have had contact with the tough and overly punitive felony authorized system.
“We are going to proceed preventing to offer these people and their households a pathway to citizenship, and urge Congress to behave to guard American households and develop our economic system.”
