Bob Goodlatte,  Dreamers Should Be Stripped Of Protections
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Date: 2014-06-27

Bob Goodlatte,  Dreamers Should Be Stripped Of Protections


WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) distanced himself on Thursday from previous discussions on allowing young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to become legal residents, and argued they should be stripped of any relief they have received from the government.

The congressman, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, spent an hour at an event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor repeatedly criticizing President Barack Obama for his immigration policies, particularly a program he created to help the young undocumented immigrants sometimes called Dreamers. He blamed the president for a recent increase in unaccompanied children crossing the border illegally, and echoed colleagues in saying the president should end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, to keep the policy from serving as a magnet for more undocumented immigrants.

DACA allows undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children before June 2007 to apply to stay and work legally for two years or more, and has thus far been granted to more than 550,000 people. Some Republicans have called for the president to halt the policy immediately, and Goodlatte said he agreed it should be disbanded.

Goodlatte did not have a direct answer for whether he would support restarting deportations of young people who came to the U.S. as children and have long-standing ties to the U.S.

"They should not be under a process created that the president doesn't have the authority to do, and they would be in the status that they were in prior to this program being established," he said at the event.

He and other Republicans have criticized DACA, as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies that prioritize the deportation of criminals. Both of those policies protect some Dreamers from being deported.
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Bob Goodlatte,  Dreamers Should Be Stripped Of Protections

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