Political Quotes

“Tonight, I rise for the 92,000 Dreamers in the State of Florida. Tonight, I rise for the 3.6 million Dreamers across this Nation. President Trump may have terminated the DACA program this week, but the dream will survive. These Dreamers are serving in our military. They are our teachers. They are students and businessowners, lawyers, doctors, and engineers. They are an ambitious group of young people who are renewing our democracy and who are some of the very best of what the next generation has to offer. I have no doubt, despite this termination this week, these young people will continue to fight, and we in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will stand with them. We in the Democratic Caucus will continue to stand with them. I hope some of my colleagues who have signed on to this bill in the Republican Conference will continue, but we need a vote on the floor. Seventy percent of Americans already stand with our Dreamers. It is true that the Federal courts this week have continued with their injunction enjoining the termination of the DACA program. This will help those who are already in the program, but that is a small fraction of the Dreamers in this country. It is a sad state of affairs that Dreamers could only find justice in our courts. This is the people's House, and the people's business needs to be done.…”