Local Advocates Call On Congress To Pass Dream Act

WCBE 90.5FM | By Mike Foley

Published September 22, 2017 at 5:43 AM EDT

Columbus advocates, city officials and DACA recipients Thursday reiterated their call for Congress to agree on a legislative solution for the roughly 800,000 immigrants nationwide known as Dreamers. President Trump and congressional Democrats last week reportedly struck a deal to extend the program, but nothing has materialized. Elvis Saldias came to the U.S. at the age of 9 and currently lives in Columbus.

Saldias spoke on a conference call Thursday that included Democratic Columbus City Council member
Elizabeth Brown.

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Advocates are urging Congress to pass the Dream Act because of its comprehensiveness and its inclusion of a path to citizenship. According to estimates, there are more than 44-hundred Dreamers in Ohio.

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Mike Foley joined WCBE in February 2000, coming from WUFT in Gainesville, Florida. Foley has worked in various roles, from producing news and feature stories to engineering Live From Studio A sessions. A series of music features Foley started in 2018 called Music Journeys has grown into a podcast and radio show. He also assists in developing other programs in WCBE's Podcast Experience. Foley hosts The Morning Mix, a weekday music show featuring emerging and established musicians, our Columbus-area and Ohio-based talent, and additional artists that inspire him.

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