Mrs. Fetterman Wants Biden To Protect Dreamers

Her senator husband agrees!

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Gisele Fetterman has written a new op-ed calling on Biden to protect Dreamers. “As someone who grew up undocumented in the U.S., I understand all too well the pain of growing up in the shadows and the stress caused by the uncertainty of the situation,” she writes in TribLIVE, a news site covering western Pennsylvania.

“I have spoken out many times over the years about the urgent need to protect the ‘Dreamers,’ people who were brought to the United States as children and have lived here for nearly all of their lives,” she continues before calling on President Joe Biden to use “his executive powers” to “provide protections for millions of other undocumented Americans — like undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens.”

Mrs. Fetterman’s senator husband, John, agrees that Dreamers must be protected. “The supreme irony of my career: During the 2022 campaign, the GOP bludgeoned me as a socialist with a hard-on for an open border,” said Fetterman in a statement after the collapse of the bipartisan border bill in March. “Now I’m here in the Senate demanding a secure border and they won’t take yes for an answer.”

Senator Fetterman told me in February that he would not vote for legislation that harms Dreamers, a red line he made clear to senate negotiators on the doomed bipartisan bill. Despite the severely restrictive tenor of the largely enforcement-based bill, the bipartisan effort did not directly harm Dreamers, a nod to Fetterman’s clarity on the issue.

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Pablo’s View

American Families United, a mixed-status families advocacy group, has worked for years to get their cause heard in the West Wing. With the major Beltway non-profits now backing AFU’s big relief ask of Biden — for an executive order that