Mary Sanchez: The shame goes to Congress, not ‘Dreamers’
Their parents immigrated to the U.S., bringing them along, often as very young children. Toddlers know nothing of visas, checkpoints and the complexities of U.S. immigration law. Just recently, a federal court put a serious gash in this flimsy hope– first put forward by the Obama administration– of resolving the status of these immigrant children on U.S. soil.
The more than 20-year odyssey to legalize some children of immigrant parents has reached a new low.
“Dreamers” do not have the right to exist without fear of being hauled off by federal officials and sent “home,” to nations where they were born, but not raised.
Their parents immigrated to the U.S., bringing them along, often as very young children. Toddlers know nothing of visas, checkpoints and the complexities of U.S. immigration law.
This group of migrants are stuck, it is often said, “through no fault of their own.”
Many discover
