To: Sen. John Cornyn (TX-1)
John Cornyn: STOP playing games with the Dream Act and support bipartisan legislation
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has long said that he supports immigrants and immigration reform. But when it's time to act, he deploys legislation against us. This week, he introduced the anti-immigrant SECURE Act instead of supporting the Dream Act. Cornyn needs to stop playing games and support bipartisan action that protects America’s Dreamers!
Why is this important?
The SECURE Act would increase deportation agents, increase border patrol agents, make immigrants fear local police, increase racial profiling, force immigrants to quit their jobs, and undermine family immigration policies.
These are policies that will undermine the Dream Act, and John Cornyn knows it. But this is what he wants Democrats to trade in a deal for the Dream Act.
Cornyn has done this for YEARS. He says he supports immigrants and pro-immigrant policies, but when it comes to legislation he’s a hardliner through and through.
John Cornyn needs to stop playing games with the lives of 800,000 Dreamers, including more than 124,000 in Texas alone. Tell him to support the bipartisan Dream Act instead of poison pill legislation!