Durbin, Graham unveil immigration legislation at an urgent time for dreamers

With the future of a program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation in limbo, senators on Friday introduced legislation to give them a path to legal residency.
It marks the formal start of the push in this Congress to enact protections for those known as dreamers, people who were brought to the United States as children. The legislation, introduced by Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), has been proposed year after year without success.

The Dream Act, as the bill is known, would allow people who were brought to the United States as children and have a high school education and college enrollment, employment or military service to earn residency and, eventually, citizenship.

The effort is urgent for hundreds of thousands of young adults whose future is in question as a challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that now protects them moves through the courts. The program is also known as DACA.
But any immigration legislation faces a steep climb in a split Congress. It has been more than two decades since Durbin first introduced the act; in the last session of Congress, a version was passed in the House in 2021 but was unsuccessful in the Senate.
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Many dreamers are protected by DACA, which allows them to work legally and protects them from deportation. But the future of DACA, which has long been challenged by Republicans who say President Barack Obama overstepped his authority in creating the program, is uncertain: A court case initiated in Texas challenging the program could result in an end to DACA.

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Any immigration bill needs to originate from the house or else it will be an automatic DOA. The truth is, congress needs new Ideas since the dreams for border security deal has failed for decades.

It's now or never! Fasten your seatbelts!

Good luck. McCarthy made a full promise that there will be no immigration reform under his leadership. With the extremist taking over, you can believe that this promise will be kept.

Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. I cannot believe they did this instead of putting forward a bill with an actual chance of passing.

You're really surprised? Really?

damn looks like we have to survive and wait till 2028. Biden going to fuck up if he tries to run again.

why the fck they keep doing this sht? this is beyond annoying now. just another bill destined to fkin fail hard again.

This is just downright depressing......like these people sitting in office just playing with dreamers' lives......

Dead on arrival