LEO LAMBERT & CAROL QUILLEN: Congress must act on DACA
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022 -- We're ready for a bipartisan legislative solution for DACA recipients and Dreamers to ensure they can continue to stay and succeed in North Carolina and America. Our state's delegation should help ensure that this year, it finally gets done.
Posted — UpdatedOscar Miranda Tapia came to Elon University as a Golden Door Scholar. Since graduation, he has completed a service-year fellowship in Alamance County, earned his master’s in education from Harvard University, and helped launch an Elon program to support first-generation college students. Today, he’s in a doctoral program at N.C. State University and co-author of a forthcoming book on college student success.
Tony Solis, Davidson College Class of 2019, is a first-generation college student who has lived in the U.S. since age 6. A passionate advocate for education, he helped Davidson recruit and support talented students regardless of their finances, taught math in Washington, D.C. for Teach for America, and developed online curricula in math and Spanish. He’s now a graduate student at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.
As college presidents, we saw firsthand how Dreamers, with and without DACA status, have enriched our campuses and how alumni with DACA protections are strengthening our state and national economies. DACA and other programs that expand opportunities for immigrant youth are good for all of us, in North Carolina and beyond.
U.S. citizens have invested in educating Dreamers for decades and they’ve more than given back. Global economies in the 21st century are in a fierce competition for talent, so keeping our talented Dreamers in the U.S. will lift all of us.
Given recent court rulings that endanger the future of DACA, we are united in calling on North Carolina’s congressional delegation to secure Dreamers’ futures in the U.S. Congress by passing bipartisan legislation before the end of the year that includes a legislative solution for Dreamers.
We’re ready for a bipartisan legislative solution for DACA recipients and Dreamers to ensure they can continue to stay and succeed in North Carolina and America. Our state’s delegation should help ensure that this year, it finally gets done.
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