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A Dream Act that Offers Relief to All Immigrant Youth, Farmworker Bill Will Strengthen Our Communities, Make Our Country More Just, and Help Us Overcome the Racism and Xenophobia Trump Unleashed

March 4, 2021
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of leaders of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the introduction of the Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act in the U.S. House of Representatives:

“America’s moms want Congress to pass a fair, inclusive Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act very soon, so President Biden can sign them into law. Creating a path to citizenship for those in the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program has strong bipartisan public support. The introduction of these two bills in the U.S. House of Representatives is an important step toward creating a path to citizenship for nearly 2 million undocumented young people in the only country most have ever called home and providing farmworkers and their families with an opportunity to earn legal immigration status. Passage would also help people eligible for Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure, whose futures are uncertain right now.

“While we support passage of these bills, we urge members of Congress to ensure that the final version of the Dream and Promise Act does not include harmful provisions that would deny relief to Black and Brown immigrant youth who have been targeted by racist policing or our unjust criminal justice system.

It’s past time our country recognizes the enormous contributions that all immigrants are making to our success”

-Statement of Donna Norton, Executive Vice President, MomsRising.

“We owe a debt of gratitude to the young immigrant activists who have fought so effectively for this legislation, and to the representatives who introduced these bills. Moms want lawmakers to pass them both, with adjustments to the Dream and Promise Act to remove provisions that perpetuate racial disparities and without any weakening amendments, before the upcoming recess. Their enactment will strengthen our communities, make our country more just, and help us overcome the racism and xenophobia President Trump unleashed and stoked. We must end the cruelty and racism that pervade our immigration system, now.”

-Statement of Xochitl Oseguera, Vice President, MamásConPoder

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.