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Daniel Garza<\/em><\/p>\n As the son of Mexican migrant workers and a veteran of the George W. Bush Administration, Daniel Garza has been frustrated by President Donald Trump’s hard-line approach to immigration. Daniel Garza As the son of Mexican migrant workers and a veteran of the George W. 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\nTo push back on it, he’s revving up a grassroots effort to lobby Congress, backed by the billionaire brothers Charles and,\u00a0until recently, David Koch.
\nAs head of the conservative mega-donors’ LIBRE Initiative aimed at Hispanics, Garza will be organizing five public rallies in the next week aimed at shaking loose a congressional stalemate on immigration, highlighting yet another looming deadline for courts to decide how to handle children who came to the country illegally.
\n“It’s been exhausting. It’s been frustrating. But there’s too much at stake just to give up and walk away. There are lives that are impacted by this. Too many communities, churches, American employers,” he tells TIME. “Of course, primarily, it’s these children who are American in every sense of the word except that they don’t have legalization.”
\nGarza and a staff of more than 60 aides have worked to build credibility in local Hispanic communities by conducting\u00a0workshops\u00a0several times a week to help immigrants \u2014 here legally and those here not \u2014 to pass their drivers’ license tests. Other courses help immigrants earn their G.E.D., learn English or even citizenship because, as Garza tells it, “you can talk about economic freedom and building a free society but in the marketplace, but millions of Latinos in this case are shut out of the marketplace because they don\u2019t have a drivers license, or speak the language or have a diploma.”
\nAt the same time, because of backing from the Koch Brothers, Garza knows that he can get a hearing from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
\nWhether it translates to progress, however, is still unknown. To this point, hardliners in the House have managed to repel efforts at broad change on immigration. Prospects for big legislation \u2014 especially with an election looming in November \u2014 are dim, and unrelenting negative coverage of the nation’s flawed immigration systems have moved few votes…
\nTo read the complete story:\u00a0 http:\/\/time.com\/5343074\/libre-koch-congress-immigration\/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=social-button-sharing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"