Democrats know the importance of our country’s history as a nation of immigrants. We honor our fundamental values by treating all people who come to the United States with dignity and respect, and we always seek to embrace — not to to attack — immigrants.

Democrats will continue to work toward comprehensive immigration reform that fixes our nation’s broken immigration system, improves border security, and prioritizes enforcement so we are targeting criminals and not families. Our immigration system should keeps families together and allow healthy immigration to strengthen our economy.

Thanks to President Obama, hundreds of thousands of DREAMers have been able to receive a temporary status that allows them to study, work, pay taxes, and contribute to the communities they grew up in. His administration made a tremendous difference by prioritizing immigration enforcement so that it focused on those with criminal records and didn’t arbitrarily separate families. Democrats are fighting to protect that progress.