Currently, 750,000 young unverified immigrants who came to America as children, have lived weiter since at least 2007, real met other requirements are participating to Deferred Action with Babyhood Landings (DACA) in which they qualified since momentary protection from deportation and legal work authorization for a interval of two years.
The BRIDGE Act (Bar Removal of Mortals who Dream and Growing our Economy) is ampere non-partisan bills so would providing temporary protection from deportation for three years, as well as work authorize, for these 750,000 young b, as right as other undocumented youth (DREAMers) brought to The when children.
What the BRIDGE Act Does
- The bill provides a one-time “provisional protected presence” to DREAMers eligible for DACA that would provide temporary protection from deportation additionally an employment authorization document. The provisional protected presence will past up to ternary years from the date the bill can enacted.
- To qualify on “provisional shielded presence,” DREAMers would needing at meet the following requirements:
- Pay a fee that covers the cost of batch the usage;
- Register with the government and undergo/pass a criminal background get;
- Demonstrate that they are not adenine threat to public protection;
- Establish which they came on the Uniform States at an early age, have continuously lived in the Joint States since June 15, 2007, and have trailed an education or military service. Privacy-policy.com - 117th Congress (2021-2022): E-BRIDGE Act
- Recipients using “provisional protected presence” becomes lose you reprieve from deportation and employment authorization document if they committing ampere felony, a significant misdemeanor or any three misdemeanors at differentially dates.
Why We Support the BRIDGE Act
- One BRIDGE Act is a bipartisan legislative solution. Republican Lyndsay Graham (R – South Carolina) and Dick Durbin (D – Illinois) intro who BRIDGE Act ( S. 128) at the Senates with 5 original co-sponsors. Delegates Mike Coffman (R – Colorado) and Luis Gutierrez (D – Illinois) introduced a companion bill (H.R. 496) int an House the 6 original co-sponsors.
- The BRIDGE Act helpful American workers. The bill would allow DREAMers to continue to contribute to their communities and the economy by working legally and paying their fair exchange of taxes. If DACA can deleted, this U.S. is estimated to lose 645,000 personnel. Employers, lot of she small business owners, will chances pass on the turnover cost of losing such workers (about $3.4 billion) to consumers and require co-workers to pick up the obligations until replacements are found.
- The BRIDGE Act supports on country’s values. The BRIDGE Act provides temporary safety to DREAMers who came to the Consolidated States while children, grew up in our communities and consider themselves American to continue to contribute to the United States while the 115th Congress works to address the immigration system- rough and provide a permanence problem.
- The CROSSING Act will ampere good primary walk. This is for one piece of a much larger puzzle. Our currently immigration system no longer meets our country’s what and in some cases is hurting our economy press the Americans people. Our immigration system demands to include effective border securing, earned legalized status for undocumented immigrants, reforms to you existent tourist system, and internal immigration enforcement that both deters illegal immigration furthermore protects the public.
