Toddlers and infants and children deserved an opportunity to make their way in america and prove themselves and that that law was going to give them a chance. 16 years that weve been working on this project. It was about six or seven years ago when i wrote to president obama, who had been my colleague in the senate and a cosponsor of the dream act, and asked him to use his power as president to help these young people. And he eventually issued daca. The program that gave young people across america who were undocumented a chance to come forward, to give all their personal information to the government, to submit themselves to a criminal background check, to pay a substantial filing fee, and if they were approved to have a twoyear opportunity to stay in the United States without deportation and with an opportunity to work. That is what daca is all about. 780,000 young people took advantage of that opportunity created by president obama. Senator graham and i agree on many thing. We disag
Mr. Durbin good afternoon. Im honored to be here with my colleague, lindsey graham. Its good to business with him. Weve worked on a number of issues on a bipartisan basis. This is one of our most important priorities. Now, it was 16 years ago when i introduced the dream act. 16 years ago when the notion that these young people who were brought to the United States as toddlers and infants and children deserved an opportunity to make their way in america and prove themselves and that that law was going to give them a chance. 16 years that weve been working on this project. It was about six or seven years ago when i wrote to president obama, who had been my colleague in the senate and a cosponsor of the dream act, and asked him to use his power as president to help these young people. And he eventually issued daca. The program that gave young people across america who were undocumented a chance to come forward, to give all their personal information to the government, to submit themselves
As another federal Appeals Court rejects trumps muslim band, we spend the hour with the selling writer and author, activist naomi klein host of her new book, no is not enough post of resisting trumps shock politics and winning the world we need. Trump isaying no to not enough. We need a plan for a way forward. Amy today, naomi klein for the hour. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Led coalition is now reportedly killing more civilians in syria than isis, russia, or even the government of syrian president bashar alassad. Thats according to the journalistic Monitoring Group airwars, which based its findings on data from the Syrian Network for human rights. This data says that u. S. Led Coalition Forces reportedly killed at least 273 civilians last month, which is slightly more than the number of civilians reportedly killed by isis. Overall the data says nearly 1000 civilians were killed in syri
Amy as President Trump is sued by the attorneys general of maryland and washington, d. C. , for unprecedented constitutional violations, and as anotherer federal appeals cot rejects trumps muslim band, we spend the hour with the selling writer and author, activist naomi klein host of her new book, no is not enough post of resisting trumps shock politics and winning the world we need. Trump isaying no to not enough. We need a plan for a way forward. Amy today, naomi klein for the hour. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Led coalition is now reportedly killing more civilians in syria than isis, russia, or even the government of syrian president bashar alassad. Thats according to the journalistic Monitoring Group airwars, which based its findings on data from the Syrian Network for human rights. This data says that u. S. Led Coalition Forces reportedly killed at least 273 civilians last month, w
Amy as President Trump is sued by the attorneys general of maryland and washington, d. C. , for unprecedented constitutional violations, and as anotherer federal appeals cot rejects trumps muslim band, we spend the hour with the selling writer and author, activist naomi klein host of her new book, no is not enough post of resisting trumps shock politics and winning the world we need. Trump isaying no to not enough. We need a plan for a way forward. Amy today, naomi klein for the hour. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Led coalition is now reportedly killing more civilians in syria than isis, russia, or even the government of syrian president bashar alassad. Thats according to the journalistic Monitoring Group airwars, which based its findings on data from the Syrian Network for human rights. This data says that u. S. Led Coalition Forces reportedly killed at least 273 civilians last month, w