Posted on 07/27/2023 4:31:42 AM PDT by Libloather
Edgar Vazquez came to D.C. in the summer of 2021 with a plan: complete his congressional internship and turn it into a full-time job on the Hill.
**SNIP**
On a whim, he decided to intern for John Culberson’s campaign, as the longtime Republican congressman made his final bid for reelection. He learned the fundamentals of block-walking and phone-banking and began what would be a series of internships, culminating with one in the office of Texas GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales.
Vazquez was riding high until, about halfway through his three-month assignment, he learned his days on the Hill were numbered.
That’s because Vazquez isn’t an American citizen. He was born in Mexico and came to Texas as a child with his family. Like roughly 580,000 other young adults living in the U.S., he’s a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program that the Obama administration created in 2012 via executive action.
DACA provides protection from deportation and certain other benefits for eligible young people. But it does not provide a pathway to citizenship. And, as Vazquez learned, most noncitizens, including DACA recipients, are prohibited from working for the federal government or Congress thanks to a little-known provision tucked into annual appropriations bills since before the program existed.
There are certain exceptions. DACA recipients, or Dreamers as they’re sometimes known, can work in Congress as interns or fellows if they’re paid by third parties, as Vazquez was. But no federal funds can be used to pay their salaries or stipends.
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Boo f*****g hoo.
but Congress can work for the Chinese, illegal aliens, ukes, etc, etc.
“Dreamers” should be “dreaming” back in their country.
So many Americans are so stupid and uninformed about the damage these “dreamers” are causing, economically, socially, ecologically and the diseases being reintroduced here.
My tiny wee violin is at the cleaners
From the article : “ But it does not provide a pathway to citizenship. “
are these ‘dreamers’ illegals?
sorry, they shouldn’t be anywhere in the country.
1 million every year immigrate to the US. that’s enough.
Were he and his familia promptly put on a bus and sent back to the southern border? No. What a shame. I might have watched the Netflix documentary on their trip back to their ancestral home after being deported as they should have been. Could have been a real tear jerker. I mean, I wouldn’t be tear jerking, I would be popping bottles but I’m sure someone might be tear jerking.
And....
He decided on a whim. Sure.
He was put in there to be a Democrat subversive.
And isn’t Gonzalez one of those “Republican” reps that wants open borders and more illegals? I know there area a few who let their true colors come out in the past few months.
So he can get a job outside the federal government like most of us. I presume he’s college educated — probably paid for by taxpayers. He’s benefitted greatly already from being here illegally.
Want to take bets on whether or not he’s been voting since 18?
>I presume he’s college educated — probably paid for by taxpayers. He’s benefitted greatly already from being here illegally.<
At the least, he’s been given enough taxpayer funded education to pursue US citizenship. Or is that too much to ask in return?
EC
Yep. And you can’t be president unless you are a “natural born citizen”.
(Dripping with sarcasm)
No. They can’t apply for citizenship since the parents brought them here illegally. Even a baby born 3 days prior to arriving in America, they can’t get citizenship.
Why haven’t these slugs bothered to become naturalized citizens?
They won’t hire ‘em, but they want us to. Riiiight.
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