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Dick Durbin: “The Justice Department issued a shocking decision that puts…”

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

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Dreamers have grown up here, pledge allegiance to the same flag as all other American children. They are American in every way except for their immigration status. But last week, The Justice Department issued a shocking decision that puts dreamers at risk of being swept up in the President's cruel mass deportation campaign. In 2012, at the request of myself and our former colleague, Republican Senator Dick Lugar, President Obama established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, known as daca. (03:52–04:01)

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Asserts that a DOJ decision endangers DACA recipients with deportation.

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