Sen. Dick Durbin Calls DACA ‘The Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking on the Senate floor Monday prior to a vote to break the filibuster and eventually reopen the federal government, Democratic Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called the issue of legalizing illegals under the DACA program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is “the civil rights issue of our time.â€
“So many of you cast a vote that was very hard and very difficult, because you believed as I did that the issue of immigration, the issue of the Dreamers is the civil rights issue of our time. You stuck your necks out and said I’m willing to go on record even if it’s going to be hard to explain back home, and I will never forget that,†Durbin said prior to the vote.
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