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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the sponsors of Dream and Promise Act. |
The House bill, H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, passed 237-187 with seven Republicans joining the 230 Democrats. Like most of the rest of the Democratic agenda, it’s likely headed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s dustbin.
The bill would allow 2.5 million U.S. residents, including Dreamers – those eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) - and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) recipients, to stay in the US and eventually become citizens.
“This is an historic day that was 18 years in the making!" said Rep. Judy Chu, D-CA< chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. "Finally, Dreamers and other immigrants who have lived and worked here and are American in every way possible are one step closer to being protected from xenophobic threats to separate families and send them to a country many of them have never even known.
"I know that this bill is particularly important to the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community who, while only making up 6 percent of the entire U.S. population, are 16 percent of the undocumented in this country," said Chu "That means there are over 130,000 Asian American Dreamers living in uncertainty with the threat of deportation always looming."
The elation felt by House Democrats and their supporters will be short-lived however. Getting the GOP-dominated Senate to pass the bill will be nearly impossible if Senate Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY, even allows the bill come to a vote. Even if by some miracle the Senate passes the bill, the White House has threatened to veto the bill.
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