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Bipartisan push revives America’s Children Act for documented dreamers

Senators Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, and Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, joined Representatives Deborah Ross, Democrat of North Carolina, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Republican of Iowa, in reintroducing the America’s Children Act

Capitol Hill briefing in May 2022 on the need to pass America's Children Act. / X via @ImproveTheDream

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress reintroduced legislation on Thursday aimed at providing permanent residency protections to more than 250,000 young people known as “Documented Dreamers,” children of long-term visa holders who risk deportation when they turn 21 despite having grown up in the United States.

Senators Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, and Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, joined Representatives Deborah Ross, Democrat of North Carolina, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Republican of Iowa, in reintroducing the America’s Children Act, a bipartisan bill intended to close a loophole in U.S. immigration law that forces many immigrant children out of the country they call home once they reach adulthood.

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