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Dick Durbin: “More than 10,000 showed up [at Chicago's Navy Pier for DACA…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Delivers Opening Statement During Spotlight Forum On Protecting Dreamers

Published | Video Starts at 02:55

Congressman Luis Gutierrez was with me. We expected several hundred people. We hoped we had enough volunteer attorneys to take care of them. It turned out More than 10,000 showed up [at Chicago's Navy Pier for DACA registration]. And I want to tell you a sidebar to this story that I think is very critical today. Many of these parents waited hours and hours to get their kids registered for daca. (02:55–02:58)

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Asserts that over 10,000 people attended the DACA registration event at Chicago's Navy Pier.

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