New CNN polling doesn’t look too hot for either Donald Trump or his tax scam bill, but Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients can’t relate. Americans continue to overwhelmingly back efforts to protect Dreamers, with 83 percent saying that undocumented youth should be allowed to stay in the U.S. Only 13 percent (down a point from mid-September) say they should be deported. Protecting DACA youth isn’t controversial. But Congressional Republicans are making it that way.
According to immigrant rights group America’s Voice, “support for a resolution for Dreamers is overwhelming across partisan affiliation: Democrats support a 94-4% margin; Independents by a 83-14% margin; and Republicans by a 67-25% margin.” As the group’s deputy director Lynn Tramonte said in a press release, passing the bipartisan DREAM Act before Congress goes on break “should be a no-brainer.” And with 122 DACA recipients losing their protections every day that Congress doesn’t act, there’s no time to waste.
“The American people want their elected representatives to formally recognize Dreamers as the Americans they already are,” Tramonte continued. “Congress has a real opportunity to come together on a bipartisan basis and advance a solution that is actually popular among Americans of all political stripes. They just need the political will to actually do it.” Your voice matters now more than ever. Make a call today to call on Democrats to hold the line, and Republicans to step up to the plate. Get the phone number below.