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IN SR0010
Resolution
Status
1/18/2018
Primary Sponsor
Eddie Melton
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AI Summary
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Urges Congress to develop a bipartisan approach to DACA recipients that provides a pathway to citizenship.
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Notes that nearly 10,000 DACA recipients in Indiana have received work permits and deportation relief, with nearly 790,000 nationwide benefiting from the program created by executive action in August 2012.
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Cites that DACA-eligible immigrants in Indiana paid over $23 million in state and local taxes in 2016.
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Affirms Indiana's support for all residents regardless of citizenship or immigration status and notes immigrants accounted for 27 percent of the state's population growth between 2000 and 2015.
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Directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit copies of the resolution to federal officials including the President, Vice President, Secretary of Homeland Security, congressional leaders, and Indiana's Congressional Delegation.
Legislative Description
A SENATE RESOLUTION urging Congress and the Indiana General Assembly to protect DACA recipients and affirming support for all Hoosiers, regardless of citizen status and immigration status.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation
1/18/2018