“I do feel frustrated because I think that we had the best opportunity to pass this when we had it all together at once. And, you know, there's a lot of, you know, talk about taking care of our military. And I think people forget that there is 10,000 DREAMers that are actually in—well, 1,000 that are in the military now and 10,000 that are veterans. And when we're talking about taking care of our military, we seem to forget that they're—we're about to deport close to 10,000 veterans. And I think there's a lot of other areas that we could probably find some very common ground.”
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