STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Senator
Catherine Miranda today welcomed US District Judge John Bates’
decision giving
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 90 days to provide the legal
rationale behind the Administration’s decision to cancel the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This is the third federal judge that
rebukes the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA but the first to order
DHS to accept new applications. It is also the first judge appointed by a
Republican president to issue such a ruling, which underscores the bipartisan
consensus on the legality of the DACA program. The lawsuit was brought, among
others, by Princeton University; highlighting the importance of this issue to
the nation’s higher education system and economic security.
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Sen. Miranda |
“Beyond the legal basis for the decision,
DACA is simply good policy for America. The fact that one of the plaintiffs in
this case is Princeton University shows once more that Dreamers are some of our
best and brightest. You don’t deport the next Einstein because he crossed a
border illegally as a child. You don’t get rid of the doctor who could save
your life because you resent that her parents brought her here 20 years ago
when she was six years old. The American people realize that and reject the Trump
administration’s throw-out-the-baby-with-the-bathwater approach to governance,”
said Senator Miranda.
Senator Miranda is a member of the National
Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL), which represents the voices of
more than 400 Hispanic state legislators from across the country, US Virgin
Islands and Puerto Rico, which also celebrated the court decision and warned
the Trump administration not to terminate the program until a permanent
solution is enacted by Congress and signed into law.
NHCSL recently approved an emergency
resolution regarding DACA and the DREAMers during the group’s annual Summit
in Chicago, IL in February. The resolution states that: “…the National Hispanic
Caucus of State Legislators urges Congress to take action with no further delay
to stop the uncertainty with which thousands of families are living regarding
DACA preferably by granting that pathway to citizenship or, at least, by
extending DACA while a deal can be reached that creates that pathway…”
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NHCSL is the premier national association of
Hispanic state legislators working to design and implement policies and
procedures that will improve the quality of life for Hispanics throughout the
country. NHCSL was founded in 1989 as a
nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)3 with the mission to be the most effective voice
for the more than 400 Hispanic legislators.
For more information visit www.nhcsl.org.
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