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Dreamer recipients, activists, and supporters attend a meeting Friday with Oregon’s two U.S. Sen-
ators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley to call for action to support young people who immigrated to the
U.S. as children and who now face deportation under President Trump.
Dreamers in Limbo
Merkley and
Wyden hear plea
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A deal President Trump ap-
peared to have made with Dem-
ocrats to preserve the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) program for young im-
migrants appeared to be jeopardy
Monday after the White House
released a wish list on Sunday
that would make it harder for un-
accompanied minors to enter the
country illegally, provide money
for the President’s proposed bor-
der wall, and make massive cuts
to legal immigration for family
members.
Oregon’s two U.S. senators vis-
ited Portland just a few days ear-
lier to defend immigrants whose
legal status is in jeopardy and to
respond to a call for action by
many former DACA recipients
whose benefits are now being tak-
en away by the Trump administra-
tion.
About 11,000 Oregon dream-
ers, as they are called, who were
once protected under the Obama
administration policy from being
deported now find themselves in
limbo. Two dozen dreamers and
immigration activists at the round-
table discussion on Friday asked
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., calls for legislation to protect young
immigrants from deportation during a visit to Portland on Friday
and a discussion with former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival
recipients at the Catholic Charities Clark Family Center.
the senators to fight for them in
Congress.
“Hold your party account-
able,” dreamer activist Jaime Li-
mon-Guzman told the senators at
the meeting.
The senators said they plan to
push three bills within the next
couple of month: A bill that would
grant permanent legal status to
dreamers called the Dream Act,
one that would protect the private
information of Dreamers, called
the Dreamer Confidentiality bill,
and one that would extend DACA
for three more years, the Bridge
Act.
“We can do this, but it’s going
to have to be a grass roots jugger-
naut” Wyden said.
In response to the president
backtracking on a DACA deal, he
issued the following statement on
Tuesday to the Portland Observer:
“What I heard firsthand in re-
cent days both in Portland and Eu-
gene from DREAMers and those
working hard to help them in Ore-
gon is the urgent need to take care
of DACA so these young people
can continue contributing to their
communities throughout our state
and country without fear and un-
certainty,” Wyden said.