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Dick Durbin: “Originally, 800,000 plus [were affected by DACA]. Today…”

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

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Senator Durbin Delivers Remarks on DHS Funding Proposal

Published | Video Starts at 02:50

So what happened? Two weeks ago, the Bureau of Immigration came out with a ruling that DACA no longer protected these individuals. How many were affected? Originally, 800,000 plus [were affected by DACA]. Today, somewhere in the range of 500,000. They run the very real risk now that if they try to sign up again for daca, as they are entitled to under the President Obama executive order, they could be arrested and deported more and more. (02:50)

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Asserts that the number of DACA recipients has decreased from over 800,000 to around 500,000.

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