Dem Lawmaker: Biden Executive Order Has Families 'Crying Tears Of Joy'

6 months ago

In remarks outside the White House on Tuesday, Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) spoke about President Biden's order on undocumented immigrants.

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00:00Well, thank you, everybody. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is proud to stand with the

00:06President today as he announced these two executive actions that are going to impact

00:10families. And we know that today there are families that are crying tears of joy, and

00:16we'll have a sigh of relief in these executive actions to be able to keep families together.

00:22The Hispanic Caucus has been advocating for this for many months, starting with the letter

00:27that we sent to the President at the beginning of the year, and then we were right here at

00:32the White House, members of the CHC leadership team that are with me here today, came and

00:37spoke to the President, and this was our top ask, and say, please, Mr. President, we have

00:42to provide protections and relief for the spouses of U.S. citizens, people who've been

00:47here for a very long time. And as we heard today, those folks have to be here for ten

00:51years or more. The impact is going to be huge. We're talking about 550,000 families

00:58and children that will have an impact. We've heard from individuals, and we've seen individuals

01:05today that are going to directly benefit from this, who are saying, thank you, thank you,

01:10thank you. So today was a chance to thank the President for doing the right thing, and

01:15of course, the second piece of this was to give DACA recipients the ability to qualify

01:20for other visas. And so with that, there were so many partners. One of those partners

01:26was the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but also somebody who serves as the

01:35ranking member of the Judiciary Immigration Subprimella Jamble.

Dem Lawmaker: Biden Executive Order Has Families 'Crying Tears Of Joy'

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