DACA Fix In The Works Pt 1
With today's Fruit Grower Report, I'm Bob Larson. The scramble is on in Washington D.C. to come up with a permanent solution for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Representative Dan Newhouse says these young people need some finality to the problem ...DAN NEWHOUSE ... "I think we need to include in this, certainly, a way to be able to find a path forward to legal residency, legal status I guess is a better word for these young people. Many of them have known no other country."
Newhouse says the children are not at fault ...
DAN NEWHOUSE ... "I really like the sentiment expressed by several people, one in particular, a Senator said that we as a country do not hold young people responsible for actions of their parents and I think that this is a good example of how we as a nation can respond in the right way."
Newhouse says these young people help make our communities what they are ...
DAN NEWHOUSE ... "You know we have a lot of these young people in Central Washington. Many of them are attending school. They've served in the military. They are business people. They're doing a lot to improve our communities and I think that most people would agree that we need to do something to give them more certainty in their lives."
Listen tomorrow for more on the progress being made on a DACA fix and the likelihood it will be completed by year's end.