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Immigration, the Chamber approves the law on dreamers

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The United States House has approved the Dream and Promise Act, the law that wants to start the “dreamer”, That is, undocumented migrants who entered the country as children, and workers in the agricultural sector. Approved with the 228 votes of the Democratic majority, with the opposition of 197 Republicans, if the law is approved in the Senate, where its path is in fact all uphill, it will be able to guarantee regularization and then the path towards citizenship at 4, 5 million migrants. Lucille Roybal-Allard, dem deputy who is one of the signatories of the law, defined this step “an important step to put an end to the veil of fear and uncertainty that has plagued the life of dreamers for too long”.

In fact, it is from the Obama administration that the Democrats are trying to pass a law that guarantees the future of migrants who entered the country as children, with the Deferred Action for childhood arrivals program, launched by Barack Obama in 2012, repeatedly blocked and challenged in the courts.

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The approval of the law in the House, which should be part of a broader immigration reform plan with which Biden would like to start towards citizenship 11 million migrants, comes at a time when Republicans are on the attack on the subject, accusing Biden “of having lost control of the border with Mexico” where there is a record influx of arrivals, especially of unaccompanied minors.

“Until he regains control by applying laws that work, it will be difficult to talk about Dreamers or anything else,” added the Republican senator. Lindsey Graham. Over 100,000 people have been detained on the border by Border Patrol in recent weeks, with a 28% increase between January and February. And the Department of Homeland Security said that we are facing the flusPutin raises the challenge to Biden: “Let’s discuss, in public.” And in the meantime, it celebrates the largest Crime of migrants in the last 20 years.

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