LIVE NOW: Senate Judiciary Committee’s Hearing on ‘The Need to Protect Immigrant Youth’

Published on May 8, 2024

The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on “Dream Deferred: The Urgent Need to Protect Immigrant Youth” at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 8. Witnesses: Maria Gabriela “Gaby” Pacheco, President & Chief Executive Officer, TheDream.US, Miami, Florida Mitchell Soto-Rodriguez, Police Officer, Blue Island Police Department, Blue Island, Illinois Tom K. Wong, Associate Professor of Political Science/Co-Director U.S. Immigration Policy Center, University of California, San Diego Tammy Nobles, Norfolk, Virginia Jessica M. Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C. ...

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