Rep. Hoyer hello, everybody. Sorry im a little late. I was with the press. We have a luncheon with the press and they kept asking questions. There was a lot to ask questions about. Were going to get started in the next 30 seconds. They have been waiting for 30 minutes, but 30 seconds. Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate that. I will ask all of the before we get started that he will stand up,. Silence forment of the violence that is happening to many people of color. Thank you, please have a seat. Welcomes all of you. Thank you very much for being here and joining us on this important conversation. Today well talk about what happened and the situation for many dreamers, and how daca has changed their lives. We will learn about the struggle , challenges, greater opportunities this can provide for our young immigrants as well as the site for comprehensive Immigration Reform and how these dreamers have played a major role in this extremity struggle we have. We have an extraordinary champion will share a few thoughts with us. Before we get started with this conversation, i want to make sure Everybody Knows who is here. I will ask you you please say your name and your organization so we know exactly who is in this room. Let me get started. Am the director of casa. Hi, everybody. My name is cecelia. [inaudible] for casa. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is rosa smith. I work for prince Georges Community college. My name is hannah. I am a student at the university of North Carolina. Hello. My name is aaron. I am a councilman from riverdale park, maryland. Hello. I am are in the garcia. Miranda garcia. I am here with the congregation working with the two boys in el salvador. I am don. Pgi, i am a resident of county. I am nick. [inaudible] my name is lee hopkins. I am a resident of virginia. Is juan cruz. I am also part of the staff here. I am here from the councilmans office. [inaudible] casa. M a specialist with am a state delegate and a member of the staff here at casa. I am the executive assistant here at casa. I am a Development Associate here at casa. Specialist here at casa, as well. My name is virginia. Casa. He coo at i am daniel. The assistant principal at the International High school at langley park. Angela gonzales. Ntin latin America Youth center. Ueroa. M roger figaro i am a Daca Recipients. I am part of that latino providers network. I work at the university of maryland. Principale assistant at high point high school. Erin graham. Buenas tardes, todos. Good morning, my name is heather bradley. [inaudible] was the prince will for two brothers who are in the news for their deportation. I am a Montgomery County residents and a Daca Recipients. I work at casa. My name is natalie. Recipient and a board member for casa and action. Inthank you for joining us this report conversation. I have the honor to introduce to a leader in our community. Represents if we have any problems related to immigration or health care, we need to speak to him and call the congressman. We need to Work Together immediately. His staff jumps to help our community. This is our leader not only in district five for all around. Thank you very much, congressman, for joining us. We will have this conversation important issues. Number one is daca. Know, tomorrow is our fifth anniversary for this extruder program that is impacting the lives of so many young leaders. We want to have a conversation with you about that. Thanecond one, more 300,000 people have ppas. A lot of in the washington, d. C. Area. We hear that this program is at risk. We want to have a conversation with you about it. We want to hear from you when you think about this and how we can Work Together. Please join me in welcoming steny hoyer. Rep. Hoyer if gustav oks not gustavo getse mad at us, we will be in a lot of trouble. [laughter] that is the trick of being a good coo. I want to thank the staff who doesnt such extraordinary work in an extraordinary way here in our region. Just Prince George county, but Montgomery County, washington, d. C. I know there was someone living in virginia. That is fine because we are a community. Here. Glad to have you i have the last time i was here, Luis Gutierrez was here with me. We had a rally out front and a lot of people there talking about immigration. Talking about treating People Fairly and treating people in the best interest of our country. Interest,f their best but the best interests of our country. I want to talk a little about that. First of all, i want to thank you for being here. I look forward to hearing your viewpoint and story, with the ns in washington would be to you and your families and employers. Anted introduce claudia introduce claudia. She is particularly focused on these issues. Has betsy gotten here . Is she coming . She is my district director. Any of you call, we tried to be of any assistance we possibly can. I want to thank those who do such an extraordinary job. I know we have is that peter a staff here, but i want to thank all of the volunteers, as well. When i tell myself when they leave and go they to another job almost always making more money, i say you can go off the payroll, you cannot go off the stack. [laughter] i consider them as always sort of permanent staff. Casa has been instrumental in providing resources for those who face the daily threat of deportation. Un addition, the services yo talked about health care, housing, all the things that confront all of us. So many of us dont know who to cas for them call and their familiesa. Call casa for them and their families. Thank you very much. Youngmillion undocumented people who come here as minors and know no other country, no although their parents are great parents may speak the language at home but for all intent and purposes they are americans. To say to them you are no longer welcome here is morally, individually, as well as hopefully legally unacceptable. Casas advocacy is critical in timely. Generalstates attorneys trump ding president president obama for this program repeal. Il he put in place for the best interest of america. It is athose benefit for those of you who are beneficiaries, but it is also for the best interest of america. If you were to repeal this , it would be a humanitarian disaster and a breach of our nations valleys. Democrats will not sit idly by. Re republicans who will not sit idly by, hopefully enough to make a difference. Thell tell you, leader pelosi, who will do whatever we can to make sure daca children, young adults, and families are protected. We have convey that to the administration. If they pursue a policy of deportation and humiliation of immigrants who simply wish to build a better life here, escape poverty, and escape violence. And i used to travel to the soviet union and say to them, allow families to be reunited. Allow people to come out of the wviet union and be with their ife or father or mother or brother or sister as a united family. If i was the soviet union and other countries to ask for the, that,expect ask for can i expect less from my own country . The answer is a no. United states, Senate Passed a comprehensive immigration bill. It provided for security of the border. Gutierrez, to luis he will say security at our borders is critically important. We all understand that. Domestic of terrorism, day, but the other terrorism nonetheless, we need to know who is coming into our country. A countryways been that lifted its lamp beside a golden door offering hope and sanctuary. From violence, sanctuary for people. Unfortunately, we do not seem to thatring that carrying sanctuary roll out as it should be carried out by our country for people who want to build a better life here and escape the violence that threatens their familys lives. Overryland, dreamers had over00 dreamers as 500 millions annually. Economy would lose 46 billion a year. That is how much dreamers add to our coulter in society every year. That is why we will continue to put for comprehensive Immigration Reform that creates a pathway to citizenship. That is why i have cosponsored Luis Gutierrezs bill. Ensure there is a pathway to citizenship. Willtunately, that bill not be brought to the floor by our republican friends. Had it been brought to the floor, it would have passed. They had the votes on the floor to pass. Thank all of you for being here and all of you who will give me your stories. Real Life Experiences are very compelling for our voters. , youu talk in the abstract sort of ok, i think that is right. When you talk about individuals and the impact it has had on them and their families, that grabs people. Oyer then understand why h this. So much about it affects individuals one at a time. Than their families, then their thenn ther employee is community, then the nation. I will stop talking and let you topic you want to hear from you. Thank all of you for being here. [applause] thank you very much for your work. Honor to introduce to you these heroes. They have been fighting for justice and comprehensive Immigration Reform for their families and their selves. Natalie immigrated with her parents from chile when she was a child. A, she is aac successful manager of a state farm office in baltimore. She works as a volunteer in many different places. Represents casa and the school board commission. A member of teh leadership board. That is one of our heroes that i want you to hear from. The second person i want to introduce to you is my coworker, morena. She emigrated from el salvador when she and her siblings were young. She and her brother and sister are all daca holders. She studied Political Science at Montgomery College. She is an extraordinary organizer. I want to welcome both of you, and thank you very much. [applause] thank you for having me today and allowing me the space and time to share my story. As the congressman said, it is our stories that really educate the rest of the community and the population about what it means to go through life as an undocumented immigrant. Marylandught here to at the age of two, and i will have my 20 Year Anniversary of living in the states in september of this year. My parents were both young, they had me when they were 18, so this was the land for opportunity. The reason they came here was to be able to provide myself a better opportunity than they were able to in chile. Very thankful they make that courageous decision to leave everything behind and to come to a country they dont know and they dont know the language, just with the close on their back and what they could pack in their bags. They became part of the community, they taught our morals and ethics to work hard in school and get a higher education, to treat others as you want to be treated. It. Elp those who need to becomelled in me the woman i am today. Time, up work at the there were not many undocumented immigrants. I felt very alone. I did not know of others it into were going the same duration and issues i was racing facing. I didnt know someone who has a live their day wondering whether their parents were coming home tonight and wondering whether they were actually going to be able to achieve all their dreams. Instill inteachers me if you work hard enough and you try hard enough you can reach anything. Situationality of the is being undocumented, especially back then, it was a very faraway dream. If your parents did not have sufficient money, there was no dream act, there was no maryland dream act back then, it was not a reality. Like i said, i felt very alone. I found casa and started volunteering when i was in high school. Realize started to there were other people in the states and communities were going through what i was. Ive used that fear and frustration to fuel the fight. Home and going to stay keeping frustrated and crying about what i couldnt achieve, but it was the time to make things change. Andas the time to stand up let the u. S. Government know, hey, we are here. We are just as american as any other student and neighbor. Thankfully, the marilyn dream act passed and i attempted to go to college. Umbc. Ot i double majored. Unfortunately to financial struggles, i was unable to keep attending. I didnt let that stop me. I decided if i can start my career with education, i would start my career somewhere else. Met my future employer at a events volunteering. Im thankful i met this wonderful man. He ist affordable very supporting. Even if we have to fight them under licensing and getting everything set up, we will get you working here. Ther anda step fur send will offer the same opportunities to other Daca Recipients. The students who worked hard and get the chance for employment. Will open resource for them. I want to think anybody in the community who has done that also. You have given us the that is what we needed. We had a dream we couldnt daca opens all these doors. We could start a career and help our families and contribute to our community. This is the biggest thing we all really want. We want to show we are true contributions to our community. Thankfully, that has kept me going. We see these, attacks now. Were fearful again. We see our families being deported and our neighbors been deported. I have to check in with my mother and let her know, no i didnt get pulled over on my way home today, i am just running a little late. I am going through the daca renewal process currently. We dont know what will happen. We dont know september 5 means whoever didnt get to renew in time, oh well. Those who did luckily enough get two more years. We need to come up with a solution. Whether it means we keep daca as it is now our whether we use this pressure and attacks to get a permanent solution for our Daca Recipients and families. We cannot forget about our families. We recipients are very vocal, and we are kind of the poster board of the immigration movement. Let us not forget the one to make the true, courageous decision, her parents who brought us here and left everything behind. The key for letting me share my story and my sentiment. [applause] now, fatima, before you go, you mentioned the legislator voted upon by the people. The majority of people said yes, that is what we want to do. The people have spoken on this issue. Thank you very much. Fatima, please. Fatima hello, everyone. I want to start by thanking you for being a great champion and introducing the hope act. Rep. Hoyer she is also a Political Science major. Fatima this administration is giving us hope. I migrated to the United States in 2007. From high school and became involved in the movement in 2012. House when i was facing a deadend and didnt know what to do or what my options were. Higher education was not an option for me. Was working ina this campaign called the marilyn dream act. That is when i became involved casa was and the work doing at that time. Thanks to the marilyn dream act, y siblings and i maryland dream act, my subways and i were able to continue with school. My siblings and i were able to continue with school. We all have daca. Rep. Hoyer they are younger than you are. Fatima they are younger. This is letting us contribute to this country and to help our parents payments. Thats it. I know we have additional dreamers here. If you want to make any comments ork we move on, go ahead before we move on, go ahead. You were 13 when you came here . And you are going to Montgomery Junior College now . Good. Bd your brothers, sisters, oth . Is at Montgomery College with me right now. She is 20. My brother is 18. Rep. Hoyer is he in high school . He graduated. Rep. Hoyer and all of your protected right now by daca . Daca. Are all protected by rep. Hoyer thank you. Say your name one more time. Figueroa. [inaudible] yearfinishing up my last and Business Administration with a minor in psychology. Daca has allowed me to pursue and further myself and my education to obtain a job in the field that i can actually get back and help those just like myself who came with the dream that have many dreams. Those who have the potential to do great things in this community. I can identify with a lot of the youth i work with. Reward. Great with organization i am currently it taught me a lot about professional and as a person. Daca is what allowed me to experience many opportunities to further my education and i know im not going to be done with just a bachelors. I want to pursue a masters and maybe even a doctor doctorate. My purpose in life is to help others and see what we can do to better our communities and Better Society because that is what we are here for. Mr. Hoyer were you working before daca . No. I got my first work permit as soon as i graduated high school. Becausejust in time possibly ischool, might have taken one or two courses at Community College if i had the Financial Support that there have been so many challenges because education is expensive. [laughter] and many dacae recipients, we have to work twice as hard. There are very limited options for us, scholarships and all of to find thathave one scholarship that will allow us to apply without any federal funding. Its twice as hard but i know the reward is bigger for us because we have to work twice as hard and at the end of the tunnel, there is going to be light there. Do some of you want to share . I want to thank you for sharing your stories. Im a true believer that telling stories is the best way to get to peoples hearts. Im definitely an advocate to share my story, especially with my family. It came to the point where my dad [inaudible] in carrying my work permit with me at all times because its such a serious situation where anything could happen. I remember at a point where i thought daca would keep me safe. But we have two work twice as hard and thats something im familiar with. When i started college, i was undocumented at the time. Mr. Hoyer when did you Start College . Like Montgomery College as well. I started in the spring of 2010. Working about 50 hours a week, earning about 350 a week and i needed to support my family. Whenlso support myself, so daca came in, my biggest excitement was having a drivers life. I could finally have a drivers permit and not have to justify why i did not want to part with my car. Being a privilege and not able to not have an id, even applying for college with a problem because i couldnt do it online because i did not have a social your number. I had to explain my story and im undocumented and having found that identity was really hard. , itow even after i had daca was hard to assimilate to the idea that i was in what documented. I remember driving through university boulevard and thinking i have a drivers license. Internalized to be undocumented for me. Three out of four of us have daca right now. If i know of a scholarship, i will let you know. Mr. Hoyer what was your last name . Sandoval. Thank you very much for sharing. [applause] [inaudible] you are a new yorker and we let you come down here . [inaudible] lets get on this journey and see what happens. [inaudible] this group of young adults was educated not just in the literal , they feltnternally their concerns, they felt their folks likend these they were home. It was extraordinary to have daca. Im sure i will still make it. We are the top 10 in the nation. [applause] now we want to share with you about to ask ordinary young leaders. Two weeks ago, they were deported and i think that is important that you know who were those extort very and talented leaders in our community and i. Ant to invite Heather Heather was the teacher and shes going to describe more about it. Go ahead. To thankof all, i want you for inviting me to represent my students. I would rather my students here to represent themselves in it the unfortunate circumstance that they cant. I would like to thank people for jumping to their aid and i see people here from the church. The Community Outreach has been incredible and when the ,ommunity responds that likely its because the community has been deeply impacted. As nothingibe it more than despairing at the deportation of these two we loved so much. He came to the United States in 2009. As children, they were fleeing violence and economic instability in their native el salvador. Both of them were under the age of 15. These two boys, i met them in gaithersburg, maryland. You would quickly know who they are because they are always in soccer uniforms. Even though they are very good soccer players, its very uncommon date a would join the school team because they are a little overwhelmed by that idea. They quickly adapted to their community and established a wide circle of friends, including the elite does the soccer club. So when you think about them going into the mainstream, these are ways that hopped on buses immediately after school and with young people who are quite different from them in many different ways. Thats exemplary of their character. They sought out their dreams and worked toward them. Toy had no other route relief. They complied with all of their checkin then did all that i one of them was awarded a scholarship based on that is what motivated their father to take them in because they wanted to take the address. They wanted to support them through that change. That time that the boys were detained and expeditiously deported within five days and that came as a shock to the community because not only at the local level to state and national level, theres an extreme amount of pushback and we are all shocked and startled they would have done this not only to these ways in particular but that our voices were utterly ignored. Had to describe him in one word, it would be committed. Use me. Diego would often show up in his soccer gear. He would come in and tell us how the team was doing engaging other englishlanguage learners in the community. When he was not in his soccer uniform, he was like a young little man. His typical outfit was like a buttondown polo of a nice khakis backs and he was age on. A khaki slacks and he was gentleman. Difficult to graduate from a Maryland High School and achieve everything in a short amount of time in terms of Language Proficiency and content proficiency and he did it. He had positive relationships with the Administration Come with teachers and his friends. The other was not my student. Esols a contributor to our literary magazine. I spoke with his ap and his teacher said i loved this young man. I taught him and ap literature and i was constantly impressed by his kindness, compassion, work ethic and maturity. He takes personal responsibility foris only a positive thing our country and community and is a good egg through and through. As most of you can tell, these brothers exemplified everything we look for as new americans, the tenacity to overcome great difficulty, there were thick and commitment, and a propulsion asard an American Dream for the boys were being detained, she said please just let my brother live their American Dream. For these brothers and immigrant americanseeking their dream, we would appreciate your continued support of both pieces of legislation. Thank you. [applause] mr. Hoyer thank you very much everybody who spoke. Im sure there are an awful lot of so an awful lot of tears you have and shed. If we dont have a policy that is consistent, i want to remind people of the united dates has we are2 to 98 going to work with those people in the united dates that are not authorized to be here and make sure there is a pathway to citizen ship and there were some conditions. Not asf all, there was some people said, amnesty. You had to pay a fine and there was a healthy. You had to not be somebody who has done wrong, criminal offense or something else, a serious criminal offense. And you had to have a substantial time to achieve this past way. Was consistent with that piece of legislation. It is not as if president obama acted unilaterally. He acted consistent with the bill, 14bipartisan republicans voted for it that said we are going to have a pathway to assimilate those who have come to this country and are positive members of our society. Very frankly, if you come here the americanime, people want to say that are already here, we dont want people coming here committing crimes. To not dealguing with those who commit crimes in our country. What we are arguing and will continue to argue and we will try to make sure we continue the policy the united dates adopted and in my opinion, im the whip and the house of representatives, which means i count votes. Thats my job. Is when the Senate Passed its bill, had we put it on the floor over this next 18 months, it would have had a majority of votes in the house of representatives. Pinion t just my not just my opinion. Opinion of the United States senate overwhelming majority and in my opinion, the majority of the house of representatives. , we are going to do aerything we can to ensure continuation of daca. Its so important to our communities and so important to all of you. [applause] withnt to make sure those temporary protected status who obtained that status are not threatened by adverse actions. [applause] and, again, as all of us expect, to be treated fairly if in fact we follow the laws of our country, our community, of our state and local its maladies. Not too important for us have people like these two brothers who came here from el , maybe some of you know from personal experience, but i know from reading the data, one of the most dangerous countries in the world. I have three daughters. I have three grandchildren. I have four great grandchildren. If i lived in the most dangerous and they wereorld at risk if they went out the door we saw a young unfortunately we saw a 17yearold that just died as a result of a bullet that hit her that was not meant for her simply because there will were dangers in the community. Thats a small amount of danger when you compare it to some of the countries from which people come. I talked about refuge, i talked about the lamp being lifted beside the golden door, initially, the president , when he was campaigning said 11 million, 12 million, i dont know the exact number but we are going to have all of them leave the country. Country, them left the it would make a very, very substantial adverse effect on the economy of our country. Mention the humanitarian disaster that it would affect. Now, he is pursuing, as you know, a very vigorous deportation policy. The brothers, apparently were in the shortest time the lawyer had seen in terms of a deportation. Which means we did not have consideration. It was just a formula. You havent done this, you havent been that, out. Heres a young man getting a scholarship to university of North Carolina. Maybe he could not get into the , but they of Maryland University of North Carolina is an Excellent Institution and he gets a scholarship to play soccer. He would not have gotten the scholarship if you are not academically qualified. Summarilybrother kicked out of the country. To a country i dont know how old they were when they came. They were both under dean. I believe they are now 19 and 22. 15. Oth mr. Hoyer they were assimilated and one of them got a scholarship and ms. Bradley speaks to their character and conduct. I want all of you to know that if you have heard luis iteris speak, i dont know anyone who speaks with more passion or knowledge than he does. Caucus ispanic graduated from high school before any of you were born, any ofy maybe not you, but in 1957 here in Prince Georges county and i went to the university of maryland. That was the Civil Rights Movement in our country. We have had a tragic confrontation in charlottesville over the last 72, 96 hours. Our president , in my view, did not respond effectively or ,ppropriately to hate groups people who sympathize and hold a swastika up, showing support of nazi policies which were the most horrific in my lifetime. Horrific actions, but some of the most. People who want to have us hate somenother because of difference i grew up at a time when Martin Luther king said it was the content of character, the color of skin, the gender, sexual orientation, not any of that, but the character. You spoke eloquently about wanting people to help your country. You speak spanish and probably speak it fluently. You probably have John Sarbanes as your congressman, but i can guarantee he will be there as well lighting to make sure we follow in policy that is good good for all of the people for whom you advocate. I know other people are going to have questions for you, so i want to open up the floor because i know some of you have some questions. Do you want to ask any questions of the congressman . I work for Prince Georges county public schools. You are supporters of our students, including our immigrant and undocumented students following federal law. In ant to make sure Congress Level and the senate that you will continue to protect civil rights laws and legislation as they stand. We are very concerned about any retaliation taken against Public Institutions for following the federal law and policies and i was wondering if you had any thoughts on that. I think the proposals we have seen largely around sanctuary cities or other seenizations, churches, we churches saying we are going to be a sanctuary for those who are they have very negative policies and i think those policies will not be enacted into law because i think there are enough members who oppose not justicies, so its him a crass some republicans, who believe it is a negative about and when we talk sanctuary cities and we talk about the violence against women act and one of the provisions extended it to undocumented so everyone was included. When the bill came to the floor, it did not include those protections. Finally, we got protections for everybody. Why do you want protections for everybody . Abused who is is afraid to come forward means that the abuser will not be held accountable or prevented from abusing others. The answer to your question is we are going to be very vigorous and trying to ensure we dont analyze these states, school forems, other organizations protecting people who they believe are in need of protection. Thank you very much. Any additional questions . I want to make sure all of you get the point of the example i gave. Persontection is to the who is abuse, but the reason Law Enforcement is for it is so people will be willing to come forward and lodge a complaint. Wont have to hide under a table or run, we talk about sweeping things under the rug. We dont want people to have to do that. Lady youhe young talked about driving down and seeing the police car . We all see we all get a little nervous when the police car is in back of us, but then you say i have a license. When people are nervous, people are scared, they are not productive and they do things we dont want them to do. It is counterproductive. I do have a question. Asks toughe questions. Should i say its ok or not . Said in the 2019 budget, for Immigration Enforcement as well as to build the wall to say you cant take the lead to make sure you are going to support and ask our Congress Persons in the senate to oppose the wasting of money on that. So thats the question. Mr. Hoyer not only am i going to do it, but we have been doing it. When we did the 2017 appropriations bill, as you know, there were some at very high level two wanted to put money to build a wall in their. People who security were in charge of security in his administration, i wont mention his name, say the wall will not work. Matter, a practical spending billions of dollars doesnt make sense. The answer to your question is we made sure that did not happen and we are going to fight it again. We just passed a Defense Authorization bill which mayion bill take some money out of the Defense Department to put into a wall. I dont think that will pass the United States that. Every democrat voted no. We are going to continue to do that. Reiterate so you are not confused, and i know you are not, security at our borders is something all of us want to make sure happens, particularly in a time of terrorists. We had domestic terrorism in charlottesville, the young man was apparently from ohio. We want to matter is make sure we dont have terrorists coming to our country, so we need to secure the border. All of us want security at the border. That, frankly, what president obama said and i agree, the Enforcement Agency is ice, but the enforcement agencies need to concentrate on people who are breaking our laws and spend our resources on those who are putting our property and persons at risk. Working,e who are going to school or participating constructively in our communities. I will continue to pursue those kinds of policies so we spend money on the important and make sure we spend money where it will make us safer, not diminish our communities. Final question before the Closing Remarks . On the single the senior legal manager here and i was there when they were taken into custody. Maryland. In mr. Hoyer what he means is i in afice a long time for long time. [laughter] leadershipiate your which i think is important. What we are seeing, this is often your last comment, is all discretion by ice is wrong and they are telling us these folks, these are mothers, these are children, theres nothing we can do for them. I understand we are fighting for legislation, but thats not owing to happen in the near future with President Trump in office. Families keep the protected and had we keep very family members with different documentation, including eps. There are many members that have that. How do we force them to go back to having some kind of priority status as we had under the Obama Administration . Thank you. Mr. Hoyer i think this is one way to do it because stories matter. One of you said that. And when you talk about things in gross about ok. Cy, people say luis or talk about lucille or as a, or the two brothers, that really grabs people. Dont have the votes in that the problem. Because wechange have 48 members of the senate and they need 60 votes except in a reconciliation. Unfortunately, much of this is not law as we know it with regulation. Obama exceeded his authority and dhs you know the law better than i do on this, they dont believe the law will hold up. We will see, i suppose. Maybe they will not pursue it, but the fact is when you say dot can we do, what we can is have the American People much more cognizant of the adverse impact the Trump Administration thesesuing or having on two brothers. Wellive good kids doing who would be a positive contribution to our country. My father came here from denmark. He was not young. He was 32 and he came here in 1934, so im a first generation american on my fathers side, not on my mothers side. America, nobel prize winners, 40 of them born overseas. 10 nobel prizery winners in the United States of america were born someplace other than the United States of america. America has been constantly enriched by those who have come to this land. Why do they come here . Safety,rtunity, for because they cared about their families. Thats why most people come here. Not everybody. Some came in voluntarily and that was wrong. But most people came here to participate positively in enriching their lives and the lives of the communities in which they live. Those stories can make a difference. For want to say thank you joining the conversation but before we leave, i want to extend an invitation to all of you and that is how we can make a difference. I want11 30 a. M. To make sure you are paying attention. Tomorrow, we will be in front of the white house. Hundreds of dreamers and people its the anniversary of daca, so congressmen get taras will join us and many other leaders are going to join us. We need to invite you officially but join us at 11 30 a. M. Its very important to send a message to this administration that we are going to keep fighting because we want to mention that daca stays. On behalf of casa, thank you for joining us. Mr. Hoyer can i just ecowas gustavo has said . Showing up and speaking up as quickly important. Does itwhen you see will be a collective story because you will have a lot of daca and others there. A reporter is going to talk to some individual, what your story . And they are going to put that on television and somebody says geewhiz, we ought not to do that. Thats how democracy works. Obviously, the stories are important, but when you have large numbers of people, you recall on the 21st of january how many people showed up at the womens march in washington d c. As you can tell, im not a woman and there were a lot of men there. As you can see, the president became so defensive, more than were at the inauguration. Amazing and it made a difference. It energized people and lead to keep people energized, focused and showing up. Thank you so much for all you do. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] House Democratic with steny hoyer and steny hoyer and his plan. On the daca earlier today, President Trump returned from his 17 day stay at his golf resource golf resort in new jersey. Hes at the white house before leaving for his home at trump tower in new york city where he will speak with the japanese prime mr. Tonight. At about 12 30 today, he made this statement in the diplomatic Reception Room about this weekends violence in charlottesville, virginia