Trump Will Allow 'Dreamers' to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise
Source: New York Times
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR JUNE 16, 2017
WASHINGTON President Trump has officially reversed his campaign pledge to deport the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as small children.
The Department of Homeland Security announced late Thursday night that it would continue the Obama-era program intended to protect those immigrants from deportation and provide them work permits so they can find legal employment.
A fact sheet posted on the departments website says immigrants enrolled in the 2012 program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, will continue to be eligible to renew every two years and notes that no work permits will be terminated prior to their current expiration dates.
Immigration rights activists, who have fiercely battled Mr. Trumps travel ban and increased enforcement of other immigration laws, hailed the decision.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/trump-will-allow-dreamers-to-stay-in-us-reversing-campaign-promise.html
SHRED
(28,136 posts)LonePirate
(13,431 posts)They are already pissed about Hillary not being in jail. Now that he's backing off his hardline, racist rhetoric, they don't have many reasons left to support him.
DK504
(3,847 posts)LOL....he'll go down to his 13% base and have an 87% disapproval level.....Ha Ha.
katmondoo
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tanyev
(42,623 posts)I think he might have found it.
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)Igel
(35,359 posts)Back where "their" culture is indigenous.
I doubt that they're revoke something that's done; in fact, in a few cases there might be a technical violation that permits the deportation under DACA.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)in the wake of the Steve Scalise shooting, I guess he had no choice...
rocktivity
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)was never going to work well. Restaurants, farm workers, landscape, building
businesses hit hard. Deport these people and deport their paychecks, deport
the value they provide our businesses that feed profitability.
It was just another #MAGA delusion based on poorly conceptualized ideas viewed through
self-aggrandizement and rose-colored glasses.
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)He knows he's being hunted, and anything he perceives as pleasing to a majority of us will be tossed in front of the wolf.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)a man with no desire to make waves or cause any more controversy it seems...
bring on the pee tapes!!
Aristus
(66,467 posts)haele
(12,681 posts)ICE already has the go-ahead to bulk up their numbers by going after the "soft targets" - the dreamers and the people just trying to live a normal life - instead of any actual criminals.
That's why the administration is so hard on "sanctuary cities" - they want local and state police to use their resources to take responsibility for federal jurisdiction tracking and detaining the criminal undocumented rather than risking their cowardly "ICE" asses taking on the "bad hombres" that move interstate when they cross the border - as ICE and DHS are supposed to.
More money for their Security Industrial Corporate friends as they force the state and local governments to buy the same crap they buy bulk. In their perfect SIC world, every community is going to have to buy the extra equipment and guns, and contract out to build the private jails in low-income neighborhoods...as well as paying taxes for the Feds to do the same thing.
It will be detention centers and immigrant police near every major intersection! ICE as a franchise business communities are forced to purchase.
Haele
Eugene
(61,963 posts)Source: Reuters
White House says no determination yet on 'Dreamer' immigrants
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON
The Trump administration is still reviewing a policy set in 2012 by U.S. President Barack Obama that protects from deportation nearly 600,000 immigrants brought into the country illegally by their parents, known as "Dreamers," a White House spokesman said on Friday.
"No final determination has been made," said the spokesman, who asked that his name not be used.
Rescinding the policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, would anger those who have said President Donald Trump is already too tough on immigration enforcement. But leaving it in place would conflict with a promise Trump made on the presidential campaign trail.
There was confusion over whether the policy would remain in place late Thursday after the Department of Homeland Security published a notice that it would rescind another Obama-era immigration policy.
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In fact, the White House spokesman said, the statement was only meant to clarify that the rescission of the program for parents would have no impact on the program for immigrants who arrived as children.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-idUSKBN19727J