Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – Senator John Cornyn joined fellow Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina in a letter this week asking Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, to consider a bill that would give permanent legal status to temporary residents allowed to stay in the U.S. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.
In 2017, the Trump administration planned to end the Obama-era policy, but was blocked from doing so by the Supreme Court.
Cornyn and Tillis are pushing for a focus on DADA, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, instead of another bill – The American Dream and Promise Act – that would provide a citizenship path for children brought into the U.S.
Meantime, in 2018, Cornyn blasted a lawsuit filed by the State of Texas’ to end DACA.
“I honestly don’t understand what the state is asking for in filing a lawsuit to stop the program. Right now, the issue looks like it’s going all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. They’re gonna decide whether DACA can be ended.”
(This report contains material from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.)
