Texas Leaders Unite To Urge Passage Of A Permanent Legislative Solution For DACA Recipients
Texas Opportunity Coalition will work to build bipartisan support for effort among Texas congressional delegation
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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Texas Business Immigration Coalition (a member of the American Business Immigration Coalition) and the Texas Business Leadership Council, along with more than thirty Texas leaders in business and higher education launched the Texas Opportunity Coalition, a new initiative that promotes and supports targeted immigration reform. The Texas Opportunity Coalition is dedicated to securing passage of a federal Dream Act, which would provide young undocumented immigrants (Dreamers) in Texas and across the country the right to work, pursue higher education, contribute to their local economies, and obtain permanent legal status.
Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program gathered in Washington, D.C., in 2019 as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the 2017 Trump administration decision to end DACA was lawful. Credit: USA Today Network via REUTERS
With the support of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn â and the arrival of a Democratic president â a new Texas business coalition is launching to advocate for a permanent legislative solution for young people whose parents brought them illegally to the United States as children.
In addition to the state s senior senator, the Texas Opportunity Coalition includes nearly three dozen chambers of commerce, other economic development groups and institutions of higher learning. They believe the moment is ripe in Washington, D.C., to end the yearslong uncertainty â prompted by executive action â and pass a federal DREAM Act that would give permanent legal status to those known as Dreamers.
With John Cornynâs Support, New Texas Coalition Forms To Push For Congressional Fix For ‘Dreamers’
The Texas Opportunity Coalition includes chambers of commerce, other economic development groups and institutions of higher learning.
February 2, 2021, 2:10 PM
Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program gathered in Washington, D.C., in 2019 as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the 2017 Trump administration decision to end DACA was lawful.
With the support of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn â and the arrival of a Democratic president â a new Texas business coalition is launching to advocate for a permanent legislative solution for young people whose parents brought them illegally to the United States as children.
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In this Nov. 12, 2019, file photo people rally outside the Supreme Court as oral arguments are heard in the case of President Trump s decision to end the Obama-era, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), at the Supreme Court in Washington. The Trump administration must accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a federal judge ruled last week.
Supporters of the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals say any threat to DACA also threatens the economy. Texas has the second largest DACA-eligible population in the U.S. and nearly 94% of this group is employed.