Koch Brothers Will Push Congress to Protect DREAMers
Source: The Daily Beast
The influential conservative donors want a fix to the DACA program that Donald Trump just axed.
LACHLAN MARKAY
09.07.17 3:22 PM ET
The political network of libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch is poised to back a bill protecting young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Spokespeople for the Koch network confirmed to The Daily Beast that it will press Congress for a legislative fix to the recently rescinded Obama-era program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, that shielded undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.
The Kochs’ backing could provide a crucial boost to efforts to preserve DACA, which Trump announced this week he will phase out over the course of six months. Congress has scrambled to find a replacement for those legal protections that are set to be removed. And Trump himself signaled early support for the DREAM Act, which would, essentially, codify the DACA protections that Obama had imposed via executive action.
“The Seminar Network is committed to working with and encouraging lawmakers to come together to pass a durable solution into law,” said James Davis, a spokesman for that network, in a Wednesday email. “Our country has benefited tremendously from a history of welcoming people from all cultures and backgrounds. This is a hallmark of free and open societies.”
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Response to DonViejo (Original post)
on a couple of pigs.
Maybe some good will come of it.
Although these wizened old kooks can't go to the big oil refinery in hell fast enough for me. Give them some credit, though: they took over American where Hitler couldn't, without firing a shot. Although lots of people have and will continue to die because of the sh*tty policies they are foisting on us.
