Texas Border Business
by The Tribune’s Patrick Svitek
A new Texas business coalition is forming — with U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s support — to push for a permanent legislative solution for young people whose parents brought them illegally to the United States as children. This new Texas Opportunity Coalition also includes nearly three dozen chambers of commerce, other economic development groups and higher learning institutions. They want to end the yearslong uncertainty — prompted by executive action — and pass a federal “DREAM Act” that would give permanent legal status to those known as “Dreamers.” The coalition has a key congressional ally in Cornyn, who’s focused on trying to find a solution for the group of young immigrants who benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. According to the Migration Policy Institute, about 106,000 DACA recipients lived in Texas as of March 2020. Another 86,000 were possibly eligible to apply. Read the full story by The Tribune’s Patrick Svitek.
