Bipartisan DREAM Act Bill reintroduced to Congress

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Senators connected Capitol Hill person re-introduced the bipartisan measure known arsenic the "DREAM ACT".

A Thursday greeting press conference marked the latest effort to assistance pave a pathway to U.S. citizenship for young immigrants based connected merit.

The measure has been presented to legislature astatine slightest 2 twelve times since 2001, erstwhile it was archetypal introduced by Senator Dick Durbin.

"The imagination is inactive alive. The imagination is inactive righteous, that imagination is inactive just, that imagination is inactive live and we are committed arsenic ever to get it to the decorativeness line," says California Democratic Senator, Alex Padilla, who was astatine Thursday morning's property league successful support

If passed, the DREAM ACT could alteration the lives of tens of thousands of radical successful the Central Valley.

The decades-long effort is thing Fresno Immigration Attorney and naturalized national herself, Adilene Flores has been pushing for since precocious school.

"They person the merits to payment from this, that they should beryllium recognized arsenic a contributing subordinate successful our society, and not conscionable unrecorded successful the shadows. They should beryllium fixed this way to citizenship and there's nary amended clip than now," says Flores Estrada.

Fresno's Education and Leadership Foundation Executive Director, Mario Gonzalez, besides hopes to spot the DREAM ACT successful enactment 1 day.

He knows archetypal manus the alleviation that comes with attaining citizenship.

"As an migrant myself, erstwhile I was capable to found my status, I nary longer feared being stopped. I nary longer feared being detained oregon having interactions with instrumentality enforcement," recalls Gonzalez.

He continues, "This would beryllium an accidental for those who consciousness similar they're being targeted, who fearfulness being retired and coming retired into our community, an accidental to found themselves."

But a spokesperson for the American Legion says they reason the DREAM Act due to the fact that they judge it would supply amnesty to the children of immigrants surviving successful the state illegally and would displace American citizens successful assemblage classrooms.

However, advocates spot it differently, welcoming those who lend done the U.S. Military Service, enactment and education

They accidental it would assistance physique a amended state portion empowering aboriginal leaders.

"And the lone happening that's lasting successful their mode is their ineligible status. Everybody knows a dreamer. Please, assistance this pass," urges Flores Estrada.

She expresses that radical tin assistance successful galore ways, "Lobbying is one, calling your senators is another, talking astir it is another, openly embracing it is different mode to bash this."

Local non-profits bash connection enactment services done migration workshops, those resources tin beryllium recovered here.

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