Zoe Lofgren: “Some Members have asked whether this bill terminates deferred action for DREAMers with DACA. This question was put to…”

“Some Members have asked whether this bill terminates deferred action for DREAMers with DACA. This question was put to Chairman Goodlatte at the Rules Committee today, and he answered, as I saw on TV, that the text speaks for itself. He is right. The text does speak for itself. And on lines 5 through 7 on page 1, the text clearly terminates DACA by prohibiting DREAMers from applying to renew their deferred action, which they must do after a 2-year time period. It also prevents future deferred action to ensure that we continue to deport the parents of the DREAMers and parents of U.S. citizen children, sending those children, by the way, into foster care, or prevent DREAMers who have not yet filed for deferred action from doing so. So basically, this bill will have the effect of removing DACA from the DREAMers and making them deportable. Now, there has been a lot of discussion about the role that DACA has had, and I will put into the Record a report from the Cato Institute, titled, ``DACA Did Not Cause the Surge in Unaccompanied Children.'' If you do statistic analysis, you can see that it is impossible that DACA has been the cause of these children coming from the three war-torn countries, as the report reports.…”