Bill Text: IL HR0241 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that provides the right to visas for the undocumented parents of U.S. citizen children or DACA eligible children and TPS recipient parents with U.S. citizen children or children brought here before the age of sixteen which allows them and their children to stay and work legally in this country to provide for the economic, physical, and spiritual security and development of those children. Urges the U.S. Congress to pass a clean DACA bill that gives eligible recipients immediate security and a road to citizenship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-30 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller [HR0241 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0241-Introduced.html
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, The separation of children from their mother or | ||||||
3 | father, or from both, is a violation of the human rights that | ||||||
4 | should be afforded to all children; and
| ||||||
5 | WHEREAS, The just struggle to protect the right of children | ||||||
6 | to stay with their families is at the core of the struggle in | ||||||
7 | this country to complete our imperfect but developing democracy | ||||||
8 | from its original perpetration during the genocide of the | ||||||
9 | native American and the holocaust of slavery when children were | ||||||
10 | ripped from their mother's breast and the guidance of their | ||||||
11 | fathers; and
| ||||||
12 | WHEREAS, This struggle is inspired by our spiritual, | ||||||
13 | cultural, and democratic ideals of what is right and just; and
| ||||||
14 | WHEREAS, In the reality of the failure of the U.S. | ||||||
15 | Congress, then-President Barack Obama was urged to issue | ||||||
16 | executive orders to at least temporarily prevent deportations | ||||||
17 | that separate families with U.S. born children or DACA eligible | ||||||
18 | children; and
| ||||||
19 | WHEREAS, The alternative to separation is the de facto | ||||||
20 | deportation of U.S. citizen children and children raised side | ||||||
21 | by side with U.S. citizens for the greatest part of their young |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | lives to countries they know nothing about, and, in which, they | ||||||
2 | are placed in the most disadvantaged and dangerous positions, | ||||||
3 | denying their rights as U.S. citizens and their universal | ||||||
4 | rights as children; and
| ||||||
5 | WHEREAS, President Obama did issue executive orders that | ||||||
6 | provided the deferral of deportation and the provision of work | ||||||
7 | permissions for undocumented individuals brought to this | ||||||
8 | country as minors and also provided the same deferrals of | ||||||
9 | deportation and working permissions to undocumented parents of | ||||||
10 | U.S. citizen children or such minors; the executive orders | ||||||
11 | further established the practice of prosecutorial discretion | ||||||
12 | to defer such deportations in order to prevent the unjust | ||||||
13 | separation of families or the de facto deportation of U.S. | ||||||
14 | citizen children until the Congress could arrive at a permanent | ||||||
15 | solution; and
| ||||||
16 | WHEREAS, The courts reached no final resolutions on the | ||||||
17 | constitutionality of these executive orders, and Congress | ||||||
18 | still has not reached any comprehensive solution for millions | ||||||
19 | of families caught in the system of undocumented labor, which | ||||||
20 | has operated for decades in this nation; and
| ||||||
21 | WHEREAS, In spite of the continuing threat of injustice to | ||||||
22 | children, the current administration has cancelled those | ||||||
23 | executive orders without Congress having established any |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | alternative; and
| ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, These provisions, previously adopted to protect | ||||||
3 | the right of children to have the support of their parents, | ||||||
4 | represented a just and much needed temporary adjustment and | ||||||
5 | should be restored by an act of Congress; and
| ||||||
6 | WHEREAS, Those in government who looked the other way at | ||||||
7 | this system, those companies who used undocumented labor, and | ||||||
8 | those who benefitted from the billions of dollars collected | ||||||
9 | from the paychecks of undocumented workers to fill the coffers | ||||||
10 | of social security have been asked to pay no price; and
| ||||||
11 | WHEREAS, The children of those undocumented workers, who | ||||||
12 | came and worked honestly in this country and formed families | ||||||
13 | and raised children, are the least culpable and the most | ||||||
14 | vulnerable victims of the system of undocumented labor and are | ||||||
15 | being forced every day to endure the unimaginable pain and | ||||||
16 | damage of family separation or de facto deportation; and
| ||||||
17 | WHEREAS, Those parents with U.S. citizen children who were | ||||||
18 | given protected status through prosecutorial discretion and | ||||||
19 | who reported regularly to ICE as they were required were among | ||||||
20 | the first to be deported under this administration; and
| ||||||
21 | WHEREAS, There has been a 250% increase over the last year |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | in deportations of those with no criminal records, most of whom | ||||||
2 | have families and children, with the likelihood that these | ||||||
3 | numbers will continue to increase; and
| ||||||
4 | WHEREAS, At least 325,000 Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, | ||||||
5 | Hondurans, and Haitians who have lived in this country for many | ||||||
6 | years and have established families with 273,000 U.S. born | ||||||
7 | citizen children, as well as other children brought here at an | ||||||
8 | early age (22% of original entrants were under 16) who have | ||||||
9 | known no other country, now face the cancellation of Temporary | ||||||
10 | Protected Status (TPS) and are being deported, separating | ||||||
11 | children from their parents or de facto deporting U.S. citizen | ||||||
12 | children; and
| ||||||
13 | WHEREAS, U.S. policies have contributed to the continuing | ||||||
14 | conditions of instability, poverty, and violence in the | ||||||
15 | aforementioned countries, and, morally, these children of TPS | ||||||
16 | families should not be returned to endure those conditions; and
| ||||||
17 | WHEREAS, The psychological, educational, health, economic, | ||||||
18 | and mortality effects of separation from their parents or their | ||||||
19 | de facto removal from this country are documented violations of | ||||||
20 | the human rights accorded universally to children; and
| ||||||
21 | WHEREAS, The separation of families at the border for those | ||||||
22 | seeking asylum is a violation of human rights; and
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | WHEREAS, The passage of a clean DACA bill will further | ||||||
2 | prevent the separation of families; therefore, be it
| ||||||
3 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
4 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
5 | we urge the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that provides the | ||||||
6 | right to visas for the undocumented parents of U.S. citizen | ||||||
7 | children or DACA eligible children and TPS recipient parents | ||||||
8 | with U.S. citizen children or children brought here before the | ||||||
9 | age of 16, which allows them and their children to stay and | ||||||
10 | work legally in this country to provide for the economic, | ||||||
11 | physical, and spiritual security and development of those | ||||||
12 | children; and be it further
| ||||||
13 | RESOLVED, That those visas and work permits should be | ||||||
14 | issued on proof that there are no criminal convictions of these | ||||||
15 | individuals and proof of the existence in residence of U.S. | ||||||
16 | citizen or DACA eligible children under the age of 25; and be | ||||||
17 | it further
| ||||||
18 | RESOLVED, That those visas should be renewable every three | ||||||
19 | years on proof of the continued verification of the original | ||||||
20 | conditions of issue; and be it further
| ||||||
21 | RESOLVED, That we urge the U.S. Congress to pass |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | legislation to immediately stop this violation of the human | ||||||
2 | rights of children and their rights as U.S. citizens; and be it | ||||||
3 | further
| ||||||
4 | RESOLVED, That five million U.S. citizen children and two | ||||||
5 | million children brought to this nation as infants, raised here | ||||||
6 | among U.S. citizens, should not be deprived of the sacred right | ||||||
7 | to family and parental guidance and support because of the | ||||||
8 | nation's political paralysis in correcting and taking | ||||||
9 | responsibility for past mistakes of immigration policy and | ||||||
10 | practice but, instead, should be
protected and afforded the | ||||||
11 | most basic human right, which is afforded through the creation | ||||||
12 | of family and guaranteed by the innate and irreplaceable | ||||||
13 | responsibility of parents; and be it further
| ||||||
14 | RESOLVED, That we urge the U.S. Congress to pass a clean | ||||||
15 | DACA bill that gives eligible recipients immediate security and | ||||||
16 | a road to citizenship; and be it further
| ||||||
17 | RESOLVED, That we urge the U.S. Congress to maintain and | ||||||
18 | extend family-based legal immigration; and be it further
| ||||||
19 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
20 | delivered to the President of the United States, the U.S. | ||||||
21 | Senate Majority Leader, the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, the | ||||||
22 | U.S. Speaker of the House, the U.S. House of Representatives |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Minority Leader, and all members of the Illinois Congressional | ||||||
2 | Delegation.
|