Political Quotes

“I rise today to talk about Dreamers in Virginia. Congress is engaged in a discussion about many topics in December, one of which is what to do about the DACA Program. A couple of months ago, President Trump said he was going to terminate the DACA Executive order of President Obama in 6 months. That would be in early March, unless Congress found a resolution. I am gratified that many of us are having discussions about what that resolution might be. In particular, I want to acknowledge that 35 House Republicans yesterday signed on to a letter that was led by Virginia Representative Scott Taylor, from the Hampton Roads area, saying: We need to fix this, and we need to fix this by the end of the year. I want these discussions to continue. In Virginia, there are about 13,500 Dreamers. I want to tell a few of their stories and why Virginia is a better State because of them and why, I think, the Nation is a better country because of the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who are contributing to the diverse richness of this country. Let me talk about a few of the Virginia Dreamers I have met in the last few months. The first is the pretty astounding story of Gloria Oduyoye. Gloria is a child of parents who are Nigerian. She was born in England, and her parents brought her to the United States when she was 1 year old. Her dad is a doctor and came to practice medicine and work on a work visa, but then her dad became ill and could no longer work.…”