- Rand Paul
Visit to Iowa « Press
Release
from
DREAM
Action
Coalition
plus
what actually happened
DREAM Action Coalition
August 4, 2014
“Dreamers Not
Afraid of Defending DACA
from Anti-Immigrant Republicans. President shouldn't be Afraid to Take
Executive Action”
August 4, 2014
**** BREAKING ****
Dreamers Confront Rep. Steve King & Sen. Rand Paul in Iowa Fundraiser on Vote to Kill DACA
“Dreamers Not
Afraid of Defending DACA
from Anti-Immigrant Republicans. President shouldn't be Afraid to Take
Executive Action”
OKOBOJI,
IOWA– Prominent Dreamer Erika Andiola, who arrived to the
U.S. at 11 years old, confronted
Rep. Steve King at his Iowa fundraiser on his continued effort to kill
DACA: “If you really believe in deporting Dreamers like myself, here is
my DACA so you can rip it.” Rep. King suprised Erika spoke
English.
In
2012,
the President promulgated the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program that granted deportation relief and work
authorization to Dreamers - undocumented immigrant who arrived to the
U.S. as children.
House
Republicans
voted
on
Friday
to
end
DACA
program
and strip protections
from undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers, putting more than a
half-million young people at risk for deportation despite their
longstanding ties to the United States.
Erika
joined
Iowa
Dreamers
to
help
remind
Rep.
King
that Dreamers are not
afraid to defend DACA so President Obama shouldn’t be afraid to take
executive action.
Senator
Rand
Paul
ran
away
as
soon
as
the immigration discussion began. The video
shows Paul's staff clearly extracting the Senator right away. Sen. Paul
has been a leading figure for Republicans entering into 2016. However,
the Kentucky Senator voted against immigration reform and is trying to
repair his image with Latino voters. With Rep. Steve King as an ally,
Latino voters will be suspicious of Sen. Paul's position in immigration.
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ed. note:
The Video Doesn't
Tell the Whole StorySen.
Paul
explained what actually happened in an interview with Greta Van Sustern in "On the Record." Speaking from a
cornfield near Durant, Iowa (about 20 miles west of Davenport), Paul
said:
"About five minutes before that or two minutes before that, the video doesn't show that another reporter came up and said will you do an interview? And I said I need to take a couple more bites and we'll do an interview. And I was told we had to leave and I had to do the interview. So actually I stand about 10 feet from those people who were doing a sort of kamikaze interview, and I stood 10 feet from them and did another interview. And you know me, I've always been open to discussing immigration. I'm very open to discussing that I think there should be some kind of immmigration reform, but I think you can't do it without first securing the border..."
"About five minutes before that or two minutes before that, the video doesn't show that another reporter came up and said will you do an interview? And I said I need to take a couple more bites and we'll do an interview. And I was told we had to leave and I had to do the interview. So actually I stand about 10 feet from those people who were doing a sort of kamikaze interview, and I stood 10 feet from them and did another interview. And you know me, I've always been open to discussing immigration. I'm very open to discussing that I think there should be some kind of immmigration reform, but I think you can't do it without first securing the border..."