The top Hispanic House Democrat on Tuesday challenged Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to sit down with her to find a bipartisan replacement for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.), the chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), walked uninvited to Ryan's Capitol Hill office to deliver her request, along with a handwritten note and a hula hoop. “DACA recipients have shown that they’re willing to jump through any hoop to stay in th...
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U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) today released the following statement and video on the failure of Congress to pass a DACA bill by the March 5 deadline: “We have to stop allowing committees to put up roadblocks in bringing these different bills to the floor. We should have an open process with full debate, allowing amendments to come up for an American solution. The time to act is now." Congressman Denham is the author of the H.R. 60, the Encourage New Legalized Immigrants to Start T...
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U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) on Monday released the following statement and video on the failure of Congress to pass a DACA bill by the March 5 deadline: “We have to stop allowing committees to put up roadblocks in bringing these different bills to the floor. We should have an open process with full debate, allowing amendments to come up for an American solution. The time to act is now." Congressman Denham is the author of the H.R. 60, the Encourage New Legalized Immigrants to St...
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Congressman Jeff Denham has joined a group of over 50 bipartisan members of U.S. Congress to sponsor a bill that protects DACA recipients from deportation while implementing new border security measures. The Uniting and Securing America (USA) Act is a bipartisan bill created in response to President Donald Trump’s call for a DACA replacement after he declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would end come March. “The government asked Dreamers to come out of the shadows, and it...
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In a major policy push, California Catholic Bishops are urging a Call to Action – literally. ... The call-in to Congress is directed at Republicans like Jeff Denham of California’s Central Valley, who supports providing an earned path to citizenship for Dreamers who want it. Get the full story by clicking here to watch the video.
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The Senate’s failure to pass an immigration reform proposal last week casts a spotlight on the House, where Speaker Paul Ryan has pledged to take up legislation next month. ... In the House, conservative Republicans are pushing the GOP leadership to try to pass a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. The Goodlatte bill incorporates the Trump framework but adds many other conservative immigration reform provisions and does not provide a clear pathway to citizen...
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As badly as things have gone for immigration legislation in the Senate, it's not looking any easier in the more conservative House. Republican leaders there are scrambling to find enough GOP votes to pass a measure that's even more restrictive than a proposal by President Trump that flopped spectacularly in the Senate on Thursday. Compounding those divisions are pressures from some of the House's most conservative members, who are casting the effort as a pivotal test for Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis...
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California is home to the largest population of DACA recipients in America, with about one-third of them calling our state home. For many of them, it’s the only home they have ever known. As we approach yet another deadline in Washington, the time has come to provide them permanent certainty. For too long, the government has asked hundreds of thousands of young people to put their lives on hold while Congress plays politics with their futures. Last month, we — along with Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas ...
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A bipartisan bill from U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) that would permit qualified undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers to earn status as American citizens by enlistment in the U.S. Armed Forces has garnered enough cosponsors to gain approval by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Encourage New Legalized Immigrants to Start Training (ENLIST) Act, H.R. 60, which Rep. Denham introduced on Jan. 3, 2017, has 218 cosponsors, representing a House majority and sufficient for the bill to pass that ...
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