乔·拜登总统周五在白宫召集了一群“梦想家”，讨论DACA计划的重要性，该计划为小时候被带进美国的年轻人提供驱逐救济。
六人“梦想家”小组与拜登进行了约45分钟的会谈。六人“梦想家”是指国会提出的为DACA接受者提供获得公民身份途径的梦想法案。根据与会者的说法，每个人都在个人层面上与总统进行了接触。
加利福尼亚州众议员露西尔·罗伊巴尔-阿拉德(Lucille Roybal-Allard)将试图获得“梦想家”法律地位的最新举措称为2021年《美国梦与承诺法案》。该法案将使大约230万“梦想家”能够合法留在美国。
会议强调了拜登为“梦想家”优先考虑更多永久救济形式的努力，包括为已经在该国的人提供获得公民身份的途径。DACA项目的命运在一定程度上取决于一名联邦法官监督一项声称DACA违宪的诉讼。
拜登在会议期间给了每个“梦想家”一个提问的机会。阿斯图·蒂亚尼(Astou Thiane)7岁时从塞内加尔移民到美国，她请拜登描述一下这个国家，他作为副总统在这个地方呆了很长时间。
“我只想知道塞内加尔是什么样的，”她说。“听到这个地方，我非常激动，我希望能够回去参观，同时也不要失去我在这里的家。”
阿斯图激动万分，描述了总统拥抱她的那一刻。
“当我崩溃的时候，他来了，他把前额放在我的头上，拥抱了我，”阿斯图说。“所以我认为我相信他，我认为他会做他的工作，尽他所能确保那些需要听我们故事的人能听到，这样他们就不会认为这是一个政治问题。”
阿斯图说，她有机会与拜登分享自己作为一名无证黑人移民在大学招生中的经历，以及她在布鲁克林卡纳西与加勒比和非洲移民家庭的工作。
白宫对会议的解读强调了总统的政治目标和他对公民新道路的支持。
白宫在一份声明中说:“拜登总统重申了他对梦想家、TPS持有者、农场工人和其他重要移民工人的支持。”。“总统和梦想家们还讨论了移民改革的持续需要，以及白宫对《梦想与承诺法案》和《农业劳动力现代化法案》的大力支持，这两项法案已经在众议院获得两党支持，正在等待参议院采取行动。”
《农业劳动力现代化法案》将为100多万无证农场工人建立一个申请合法身份的系统。
DACA项目的支持者担心，美国地方法院法官安德鲁·汉恩(Andrew Hanen)即将做出的裁决可能会扰乱拜登政府在前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)政府试图解散该项目后恢复该项目的努力。相反，他们希望看到该计划得到《梦想法案》的支持。
但乔治·沃克·布什总统任命的哈宁在2015年阻止了奥巴马政府为“梦想家”即DAPA的父母制定一项延期行动计划的努力，利益相关者已经等了几个月，等待得克萨斯州和其他州对该案的裁决，该裁决指控DACA削弱了国会制定移民法的能力。
共和党人长期以来一直认为，奥巴马总统创建DACA的决定是违宪的行政越权行为。DACA的支持者认为，鉴于现行移民法缺乏选择，这是执法自由裁量权的必要和合理手段。
Biden meets with 'Dreamers' in the White House to push pathway to citizenship
President Joe Biden gathered a group of "Dreamers" at the White House on Friday for a discussion about the importance of the DACA program, which provides deportation relief to young people brought into the country as children.
The group of six "Dreamers," a reference to the DREAM Act proposals in Congress that would offer DACA recipients a pathway to citizenship, met with Biden for about 45 minutes. Each engaged on a personal level with the president, according to those in attendance.
The latest iteration of an attempt to get "Dreamers" legal status was introduced by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., as the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021. The bill would give an estimated 2.3 million "Dreamers" the ability to stay in the U.S. legally.
The meeting underscored Biden's efforts to prioritize more permanent forms of relief for "Dreamers," including a pathway to citizenship for those already in the country. It comes as the fate of the DACA program rests, in part, with a federal judge overseeing a lawsuit that argues DACA is unconstitutional.
Biden offered each "Dreamer" the opportunity to ask him one question during the meeting. Astou Thiane, who was 7-years-old when she immigrated to the U.S. from Senegal, asked Biden to describe the country, a place where he spent a lot of time as vice president.
"All I wanted to know was what was Senegal like," she said. "It was very overwhelming to hear about this place that I hope to be able to return to and visit while also not losing my home here."
Astou became overwhelmed with emotion and described the moment the president embraced her.
"When I was breaking down, he came and he had this moment where he put his forehead on my head and hugged me,"Astou said. "And so I think that I believe him, I think that he is going to do his work and to do his all to make sure that the folks who need to hear our stories can hear it so that they're not just thinking this is a political issue."
Astou said she had the opportunity to share with Biden her ownexperience navigating college admissions as an undocumented Black immigrant, as well as her work with Caribbean and African immigrant families in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
A White House readout of the meeting highlighted the president's political goals and his support for a new pathway to citizenship.
"President Biden reiterated his support for Dreamers, TPS holders, farmworkers, and other essential immigrant workers," the White House said in a statement. "The President and the Dreamers also discussed the continued need for immigration reform and the White House’s strong support for the Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, two bills that have already passed the House with bipartisan support and are awaiting action in the Senate."
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would create a system for more than 1 million undocumented farm workers to apply for legal status.
Supporters of the DACA program worry that an upcoming ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen of Texascould disrupt the Biden administration's efforts to reinstate it after former President Donald Trump's administration attempted to dismantle it. Instead, they'd like to see the program bolstered by the DREAM Act.
But Hanen, an appointee of President George W. Bush, stopped an Obama administration effort in 2015 to create a deferred action program for parents of "Dreamers," known as DAPA, and stakeholders have been waiting months for a ruling in the case brought by Texas, among other states, which charged that DACA undermined the ability of Congress to establish immigration law.
Republicans have long argued that President Obama's decision to create DACA was an exercise in unconstitutional executive overreach.Supporters of DACA maintain that it's a necessary and reasonable means of law enforcement discretion given the lack of options presented by current immigration law.
