Democratic leader Sen. Dick Durbin said Wednesday that President Donald Trump thanked him on Inauguration Day for helping younger illegal aliens who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Durbin, a long-time advocate for amnesty for all illegal aliens, held a Capitol Hill press conference on October 4 and said:
I still remember the day of his inauguration when I first met him for the first time. He said ‘Thank you for what you’re doing for the Dreamers.’ He said, ‘We’re going to take care of those kids.’ And I believe him. I have heard him say over and over and over again — say to me — looking me in the eye — personally — ‘Don’t worry we’re going to take care of those kids.’ And I believe him.
“I’m standing by that,” Durbin said.
The claim is noteworthy because Trump promise during his election campaign to repatriate the roughly 800,000 beneficiaries of former President Barack Obama’s 2012 DACA amnesty.
The Dream Act of 2017, or S. 1615, was introduced by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and is co-sponsored by Durbin. The legislation would legalize at least 780,000 young illegal aliens and provide a “pathway to citizenship.”
Four million young Americans — including 800,000 with skilled college degrees — join the workforce each year, looking to find decent jobs, get married and raise a family in an economy where mens’ wages have been flat since 1973.
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