House Democrats Want Obama To Expand Education Programs To Children Of Illegal Immigrants


AMBER RANDALL

10:39 AM 06/22/2016

About 100 House Democrats sent out a letter Tuesday to Obama urging him to give education benefits to young children who were brought to the United States illegally as children,according to reports from the Hill.

Backed by Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado, Rueben Hinojas of Texas, and Gwen Moore or Wisconsin, the letter said that children enrolled in Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) should receive the same benefits from education programs that less advantaged children do who are legal U.S. citizens.
Democrats claim that because these benefit are only for legal U.S. children, DACA children are prohibited from getting “life changing services.”

The DACA, passed in 2011, allows “hard -working illegal immigrants” who were brought to the U.S. illegally before they were 16 to enroll in two-year work visas. Obama expanded those who could be eligible for DACA in November 2014; Obama also allowed DACA’s protections to include “parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents,” according to the Hill.

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