Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, before I bring up my next colleague, Congresswoman Barragan talked about the incredible DREAMers, DACA recipients that are in her district, and I have many in my district. I represent a very large city in Texas, the city of San Antonio--I have the main San Antonio district--and you can imagine that we have our fair share of DACA recipients in San Antonio. I want to read, really quickly, the story of just one of them. Her name is Lisa. Lisa is a first-generation American who immigrated to the United States from Canada in October 1996 at the age of 6. Lisa learned she had, unknowingly, overstayed her visa on December 19, 2010, just a day after the DREAM Act stalled in the Senate, when she received, in the mail, a notice to appear in immigration court, which is the first step in deportation proceedings. She went to elementary, middle, and high school in San Antonio. During that time, she was a Girl Scout, logged more than 700 hours of community service during her high school years, and spearheaded a fundraiser that raised $10,000 to help pay for the bone marrow transplant of a young leukemia patient whom she had never met. In 2008, she graduated from a San Antonio high school with summa cum laude honors, ranking in the top 6 percent of her class.…”