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“Hardy, whose district includes minority-heavy North Las Vegas, also told the crowd that he has ‘an obligation to create an opportunity for people to come here who are after the American Dream,’ and said he would ‘do everything possible to keep families together.’”
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Today, in a rare historic vote to send an amicus brief on behalf of the House of Representatives to the Supreme Court against President Obama’s immigration actions, Hardy voted to tear apart hardworking immigrant families.
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Background:
Today’s vote concerns President Obama’s immigration orders: an extension to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for eligible children who had been brought to the United States through no fault of their own, and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), which shields eligible immigrant parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents from deportation and grants them with temporary work permits. It is estimated that unfreezing DAPA and expanded DACA would result in tens of billions of dollars in economic growth.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 19,273 young immigrants in Nevada have been approved Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals since 2012.
Nevada’s 4th Congressional District is 30 percent Hispanic.