WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) as well as U.S. Representatives Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) and Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) in leading over 50 colleagues to press Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)'s recent decision to weaken legal protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
In a letter to Blanche, the lawmakers raise legal concerns with the decision, highlighting inconsistencies between BIA's ruling and the forbearance protections provided by DACA and upheld by the Fifth C...