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Conscious choice to break our nations laws. i believe there is an equity issue that necessitates addressing their status. however, that equity issue isnt present for their parents. those men and women did choose to violate our nations laws and did make a conscious choice to immigrate here without papers. we shouldnt reward that behavior. reports suggest several of my colleagues are now considering providing legal work authorization to these individuals. to the best of your knowledge, my first qu...

Country through no fault of their own and didnt make a conscious choice to break our nations laws. i believe there is an equity issue that necessitates addressing their status. however, that equity issue is at present for their parents. those men hand women did choose to violate our nations laws and did make a conscious choice to immigrate here without papers. we shouldnt reword that behavior. reports suggest several of my colleagues are now considering providing legal work authorization to thes...

Strong compliance with our rules and regulations. increased in our r 1 visa has had sharply negative effect on our r 1 cease applicants and the important humanitarian work they do. will you please follow up with director cessna and ask him to give this request all possible consideration? >> absolutely. yes, sir. >> thank you. this issue may not be a headline grabber but it is tremendously important to me and to my state. i would be pushing upon it. id like to turn to h1v visas. reports indicate ...

Over the next few months, eligible individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings and apply for work authorization. this is not amnesty. this is not immunity. this is not a path to citizenship. its not a permanent fix. this is a temporary stop gap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people. precisely because t...

Limbo. here is your legislation, here are some of the highlights of it, just so that we can put it up for our viewers. you say the recognizing americas children act you along with 17 other gop colleagues sponsors say it would be a path to legal status through higher education, service in the armed forces, and work authorization. so meaning they would be able to achieve citizenship if they did those things? >> eventually. at first they would be granted conditional legal permanent resident status ...

And what the president did today gives this a two-and-a-half year life. if he said no, were going to fight it, guess what? it would be over in two months with a preliminary injunction like that. that would apply across the country. i have one more point. and so you said just this is an execution of prosecutorial discretion. that is not true. this is the affirmative issuing of work permits. that is not the exercise of withholding prosecution. that is going out and legalizing the illegal. >> sir, ...

I mean i think the great thing about this program, lawrence, is its been in place for five years, and its been a resounding success. the 800,000 young immigrants who are part of this program who have been able to thrive, who have been able to support themselves, their families, contribute to their communities, 75% of them are working in the top 25 fortune 500 countries. 97% of them are working or in school. theyre contributing so much, and they finally are being recognized by this country and ha...

Do you support or oppose the daca policy? support, 64%. oppose, 30%. there arent a lot of issues you can poll in this country, political issues that get 64% agreement in favor of it. >> no. i mean i think the great thing about this program, lawrence, is its been in place for five years, and its been a resounding success. the 800,000 young immigrants who are part of this program who have been able to thrive, who have been able to support themselves, their families, contribute to their communities...

97% of them are working or in school. theyre contributing so much, and they finally are being recognized by this country and have had work authorization for the last five years, and donald trump is about to pull the rug underneath from them. its torture. what you were saying at the beginning, this week has been so surreal. everything is changing from moment to moment. the fact that this president cant make one of the most easiest decisions that is politically in his favor to say, were going to d...

It requires an individual case by case review of each applicant. they have to produce evidence of how long theyve been in the country, what theyve been doing in the country. they have to have a clean criminal record. and then its up to cis officers to grant daca or not grant daca. and work authorization. so its really a procedure by which those cases can be reviewed and reviewed on an individual basis. and so because its designed that way, its firmly rooted in the law of proscutoreulate discreti...