WASHINGTON – Rep. Mark Meadows
(R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, predicted that
Congress would pass a “fix” to protect beneficiaries under the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Trump rescinded.
Democrats
in Congress are calling for a passage of a DREAM Act that offers a path
to citizenship for existing DACA recipients and other undocumented
immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Rep.
Dave Brat (R-Va.) said the passage of a clean DREAM Act in the
GOP-controlled Congress that does not outlaw “chain migration” would
lead to a “nightmare scenario.”
“If
you just do the DACA [fix], right, that’s 700,000-plus; chain
[migration] attached to it is 3 to 4 million [people], according to most
estimates. And then the Democrats are talking about DREAMers, and
that’s 3 to 4 million – and then with chain, that’s 11 or 12 million,
right, and that’s a permanent in,” Brat said during a “Conversations
with Conservatives” event on Capitol Hill last week.
“So
I’ve worked at the World Bank and I’ve worked on world poverty issues
and economics for all my life,” he added. “We want to help everyone in
the world, but also you have to design policy that’s good for your own
country.”
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