WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders on Wednesday called on the Senate to pass legislation to enshrine permanent protections for young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, a decade after the Obama administration announced a program to give them temporary relief.
In events marking the anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, House and Senate Democrats urged Senate action on a House-passed bill to put these immigrants, often known as Dreamers, on a path to citizenship.
“We are not giving up,” Sen. Alex Padilla, the California Democrat in charge of the Senate’s immigration subcommittee, said at a rally outside the Capitol with dozens of Dreamers and other immigrant advocates.
