Cortez Masto and Dem Women Champion Clean DREAM Act

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) led a group of her Democratic female colleagues in penning a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urging him to pass the DREAM Act before the Senate recesses in December. The female Senators emphasized the impact of Trump’s decision to rescind the DACA program on female "Dreamers" and their families, and underscored the need to pass legislation that would prevent them from being deported from the only home they have known. "The futures of these mothers and their U.S. citizen children have been thrown into uncertainty. If Congress does not act to protect them, hundreds of thousands of women will lose their status and face deportation," they write. The Senators also raise concern that American citizen children of DACA recipients may end up in foster care if their mothers are deported, and noted that the fear of deportation leads fewer immigrants to report incidents of sexual abuse or domestic violence. The letter was also signed by Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA),Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). Read the full letter here.