Congress should quickly pass a law to protect DACA recipients, leaders from across the education advocacy spectrum said on a press call Monday.

People like President Trump and others … are making [DACA recipients] into a political football for a political cause that seems to have nothing more than just exploiting fear and scapegoating people. It’s just dead wrong.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said on the call.

The Trump administration, which in September ended the Obama-era protections for some 800,000 young people brought to the country illegally as children, laid out a series of “principles” lawmakers should follow in crafting a legislative fix. They included a crackdown on unaccompanied minors coming to the U.S.

The bill Congress passes should be “clean” — that is, not include funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border or other immigration restrictions — said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association. She and others on the call urged Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2017, a bipartisan bill that would make lawful recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program permanent residents of the U.S.

Read the full article on dreamers by Carolyn Phenicie at The 74