Dreamers urge for protections in Senate hearing on immigrant youth

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Dreamers urge for protections in Senate hearing on immigrant youth
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As immigration policies take center stage in the nation’s political debate and the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program remains uncertain, senators are holding a hearing Wednesday on the 'urgent need to protect immigrant youth,' according to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The occasion has prompted 1,636 scholars and alumni of TheDream.

” “I think it’s very sad and tragic, what happens in the country when a very small, tiny population that does bad things is now put front stage to scare everyday Americans about who immigrants are,” said Pacheco, who has been in the U.S. since she was 8, after emigrating from Ecuador with her family.

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