Immigrant advocates from New Jersey and around the nation rallied in Washington Thursday, calling on Congress to move forward on immigration reform during the lame-duck session, prioritizing a pathway to citizenship for “Dreamers,” the young immigrants currently enrolled in the federal DACA program.
On Wednesday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) called on Republicans to work on bipartisan changes. “All we need is for Republicans to find the political courage and willingness to finally fix a system we can all agree is broken,” Menendez said. “And to do that, they need to reject the anti-immigrant wing of their party, and follow their colleagues who in the past have been willing to come to the table and draft a bipartisan deal,” said Menendez.
