Congressman Suhas Subramanyam Joins Over 200 Colleagues in Reintroducing the American Dream and Promise Act to Provide a Pathway to Citizenship for Dreamers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Suhas Subramanyam joined his colleagues in introducing the bipartisan American Dream and Promise Act of 2025. The bipartisan American Dream and Promise Act would provide a pathway to citizenship to Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. 

“Dreamers shape every aspect of American life. They are our neighbors, classmates, nurses, police officers, teachers, community leaders. It’s hard to overstate the role they play in my district, and across the country,” said Congressman Subramanyam. “It’s long overdue that we give them citizenship and pass legislation that protects them and secures them the rightful recognition that they so deserve.”

The American Dream and Promise Act of 2025 would also include recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) beneficiaries. The legislation has been cosponsored by over 200 Members of Congress and has been endorsed by nearly 120 organizations. 

Dreamers have spent nearly their entire lives here in the United States. They have attended school, earned degrees, built careers, and contributed billions to our economy, all while calling this country home. Many have started families and raised children who are U.S. citizens. For example, it is estimated that the average DACA recipient came to this country at the age of six and has been here for 20 years. Likewise, TPS holders have been living and working in the United States for decades. They have built their families here and contribute significantly to their communities and our nation’s economy. 

Dreamers and TPS recipients make major economic and fiscal contributions each year. DACA recipients pay approximately $6.2 billion in federal taxes and $3.3 billion in state and local taxes annually. The Center for American Progress estimates that the national GDP could grow by $799 billion over the next decade if Dreamers were provided a pathway to citizenship. 

Economic models show a pathway to citizenship would increase wages for all workers in the U.S. and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs. It is estimated that DACA recipients in 2022 collectively earned nearly $27.9 billion and contributed nearly $2.1 billion to Social Security and Medicare, despite not being eligible for these benefits under current law. 

The American Dream and Promise Act of 2025 is identical to the version that passed the House in the 117th Congress and reintroduced in the 118th Congress. Here is a copy of the bill text.

The bipartisan American Dream and Promise Act has been endorsed by nearly 120 organizations, including: United We Dream, Home is Here Coalition, FWD.us, Immigration Hub, CASA, AFL-CIO, Working Families United (WFU), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), UNITE HERE, International Association of Ironworkers, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), National Immigration Law Center (NILC), American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Hispanic National Bar Association, University of California System, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Santa Barbara, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Education Association (NEA), Center for Popular Democracy, MoveOn, American Immigration Council, America’s Voice, UnidosUS, NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Hispanic Federation, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL), CHIRLA, American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC), National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), National Partnership for New Americans, Center for American Progress (CAP), League of Women Voters of the United States, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, National Women's Law Center (NWLC), Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), Association of American Universities, EdTrust, Immigration Project, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights First, President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Children’s Defense Fund, Children’s Defense Fund-Texas, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, Church World Service, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, National Council of Jewish Women, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Global Refugee, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice, Amnesty International, Make the Road Pennsylvania, Make the Road Nevada, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Columbia Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Voices for Utah Children, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), Nicaraguan American Legal Defense and Education Fund (NALDEF), Haitian Bridge Alliance, NM Dream Team, Friends Committee on National Legislation, The Children’s Partnership, People Power United, Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network (SIREN), African Communities Together, People for the American Way, The Clinical Social Work Association, Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Immigration Equality, Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), Women’s Refugee Commission, MomsRising, Ayuda, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Children's HealthWatch, American Council on Education (ACE), Freedom Network USA, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Child Welfare League of America, SchoolHouse Connection, Prevention Institute, National Center on Adoption and Permanency, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Central American Resource Center of Northern California (CARECEN SF), Foster Care Alumni of America, Immigrants Act Now, Omaha Together One Community, ImmSchools, National Association of Counsel for Children, Children's Advocacy Institute, Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law, Sull and Associates, Hope Border Institute, Immigrants Rising, New York Immigration Coalition, Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, UndocuBlack Network, Muslim Advocates, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, Hindus for Human Rights, Arkansas United, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, African Public Affairs Committee, Hindus for Human Rights, American Families United, Texas Equal Access Fund, Lilith Fund, Centro Hispano de East Tennessee, Union for Reform Judaism.

In addition to Congresswman Subramanyam, the bill has been cosponsored by: Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA-05), Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA-33), Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu (D-CA-36), Assistant Democratic Leader Joe Neguse (D-CO-02) and Representatives Suzan DelBene (D-WA-01), Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Bennie Thompson (D-MS-02), Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Maxine Waters (D-CA-43), Frank Pallone (D-NJ-06), Richard Neal (D-MA-01), Adam Smith (D-WA-09), Angie Craig (D-MN-02), Gregory Meeks (D-NY-05), Mark Takano (D-CA-39), Rick Larsen (D-WA-02), Jared Huffman (D-CA-02), Jim Himes (D-CT-04), Joseph Morelle (D-NY-25), Jim McGovern (D-MA-02), Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13), Greg Casar (D-TX-35), Grace Meng (D-NY-06), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-03), Shomari Figures (D-AL-02), Terri Sewell (D-AL-07), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03), Greg Stanton (D-AZ-04), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ-07), Mike Thompson (D-CA-04), Ami Bera (D-CA-06), Doris Matsui (D-CA-07), John Garamendi (D-CA-08), Josh Harder (D-CA-09), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-10), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-11), Lateefah Simon (D-CA-12), Adam Gray (D-CA-13), Eric Swalwell (D-CA-14), Kevin Mullin (D-CA-15), Sam Liccardo (D-CA-16), Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19), Jim Costa (D-CA-21), Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), Julia Brownley (D-CA-26), George Whitesides (D-CA-27), Luz Rivas (D-CA-29), Gil Cisneros (D-CA-31), Raul Ruiz (D-CA-25), Laura Friedman (D-CA-30), Brad Sherman (D-CA-32), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34), Norma Torres (D-CA-35), Linda Sánchez (D-CA-38), Robert Garcia (D-CA-42), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44), Derek Tran (D-CA-45), Dave Min (D-CA-47), Mike Levin (D-CA-49), Scott Peters (D-CA-50), Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51), Juan Vargas (D-CA-52), Diana DeGette (D-CO-01), Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-07), John Larson (D-CT-01), Joe Courtney (D-CT-02), Jahana Hayes (D-CT-05), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-At-Large), Sarah McBride (D-DE-At-Large), Darren Soto (D-FL-09), Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10), Kathy Castor (D-FL-14), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20), Lois Frankel (D-FL-22), Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25), Sanford Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-02), Hank Johnson (D-GA-04), Nikema Williams (D-GA-05), Lucy McBath (D-GA-06), David Scott (D-GA-13), Jill Tokuda (D-HI-02), Sharice Davids (D-KS-03), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL-01), Robin Kelly (D-IL-02), Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D-IL-04), Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), Sean Casten (D-IL-06), Danny K. Davis (D-IL-07), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09), Bradley Schneider (D-IL-10), Bill Foster (D-IL-11), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14), Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17), Frank Mrvan (D-IN-01), André Carson (D-IN-07), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY-03), Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA-02), Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-04), Seth Moulton (D-MA-06), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), William Keating (D-MA-09), Johnny Olszewski (D-MD-02), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD-03), Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04), Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05), April McClain Delaney (D-MD-06), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07), Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), Hillary Scholten (D-MI-03), Debbie Dingell (D-MI-06), Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI-08), Haley Stevens (D-MI-11), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12), Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13), Kelly Morrison (D-MN-03), Betty McCollum (D-MN-04), Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05), Wesley Bell (D-MO-01), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-05), Deborah Ross (D-NC-02), Valerie Foushee (D-NC-04), Alma Adams (D-NC-12), Donald Norcross (D-NJ-01), Herbert Conaway (D-NJ-03), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-05), Robert Menendez (D-NJ-08), Nellie Pou (D-NJ-09), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10), Mikie Sherill (D-NJ-11), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM-01), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-02), Dina Titus (D-NV-01), Steven Horsford (D-NV-04), Tom Suozzi (D-NY-03), Daniel Goldman (D-NY-10), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-12), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15), George Latimer (D-NY-16), Pat Ryan (D-NY-18), Paul Tonko (D-NY-20), Joyce Beatty (D-OH-03), Shontel Brown (D-OH-11), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-01), Maxine Dexter (D-OR-03), Val Hoyle (D-OR-04), Janelle Bynum (D-OR-05), Andrea Salinas (D-OR-06), Brendan Boyle (D-PA-02), Dwight Evans (D-PA-03), Madeleine Dean (D-PA-04), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06), Summer Lee (PA-12), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Pablo José Hernández (D-PR-Resident Commissioner), Gabe Amo (D-RI-01), Seth Magaziner (D-RI-02), James Clyburn (D-SC-06), Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-07), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX-29), Al Green (D-TX-09), Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16), Sylvester Turner (D-TX-18), Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20), Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-30), Julie Johnson (D-TX-32), Marc Veasey (D-TX-33), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-04), Eugene Vindman (D-VA-07), Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI-At-Large), Becca Balint (D-VT-At-Large), Emily Randall (D-WA-06), Kim Schrier (D-WA-08), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10), Mark Pocan (D-WI-02), Gwen Moore (D-WI-04).

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