Dems push to protect immigrants with new bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led elected officials at the Tenement Museum on March 20 in calling for passage
of the American Dream and Promise Act.
as well as another 1.6 million eligible
Dreamers brought to America as children,
to stay in the U.S. The bill’s protections
would also allow more than
300,000 TPS holders and up to 3,600
individuals with DED status to have
the opportunity to remain in the country.
PHOTO BY TEQUILA MINSKY
The Tenement Museum focuses on
the history of Lower East Side immigrant
families who lived in its two historic
tenements during different eras.
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BY TEQUILA MINSKY
On Wed., March 20, at the Tenement
Museum, on Orchard St.,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Congressmembers
Nydia Velazquez, Yvette Clarke,
Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney,
along with community activists, called
for passage of H.R. 6, the American
Dream and Promise Act of 2019.
The act, introduced March 12 by
Congressmember Lucille Roybal-Allard,
with co-sponsors Velazquez and
Clarke, alongside House Democratic
leadership, provides protection from
deportation for Dreamers, Temporary
Protected Status (TPS) holders and
Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)
recipients and an opportunity to obtain
permanent legal status in the United
States, if they meet certain requirements.
American Dream and Promise Act.
According to The Center for America
Progress, the average TPS recipient
has lived in the U.S. for 22 years — the
vast majority of that time in lawful status;
while those who received Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
came to America at age 6.
The National Immigration Forum
writes that protections in the American
Dream and Promise Act would allow
nearly 700,000 DACA recipients,
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