WASHINGTON ― For months, immigrant rights activists believed their best chance to help young undocumented people was to get Democrats to insist on protections for them in a must-pass spending legislation. Instead of forcing the GOP to swallow a bill to help undocumented youths, they need the GOP to instead decide they truly want one. On Friday, Congress approved another government funding bill without any action on so-called Dreamers, the young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Dreamers and their allies now turn their attention to Republicans, whom they’re hoping they can persuade to help them for a number of reasons. That could be because they care about Dreamers, whose lives would be thrown into chaos if Congress does nothing.

Source: Huffington Post February 09, 2018 22:41 UTC