DACA Dead - But Deferred

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President Donald Trump will reportedly put an end to former President Barack Obama's 2012 executive order deferring deportation of some 800,000 so-called "Dreamers" by ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA).

According to sources from Politico and the Associated Press, President Trump will end the program in six months, enabling Congress time to potentially draft and pass legislation protecting the illegal immigrants from deportation.

"The delay in the formal dismantling of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program would be intended to give Congress time to decide whether it wants to address the status of the so-called Dreamers in legislation, according to two people familiar with the president’s thinking," reports AP. "But it was not immediately clear how the six-month delay would work in practice and what would happen to people who currently have work permits under the program, or whose permits expire during the six-month stretch."


The president is expected to announce his decision on DACA this Tuesday, the day some Republicans have threatened to sue the administration if Trump neglects to rescind the unconstitutional act.

REPORT: Trump Makes Decision On DACA

Trump has made a commitment to the rule of law. The DACA executive action was an attempt to circumvent immigration law. Trump, realistically, has no choice (particularly given the hypertensive inclination of the left to call for impeachment any time something he does comes to light).

However, in an attempt at humanity, he deffered the implementation for 6 months in order to give Congress time change the law. If they choose not to, he has no choice but to begin deportations.

 

[waltky]

The Donald gonna fix DACA...

Senators, White House Working on DACA Deal
December 20, 2017 | WASHINGTON — White House staff members met with a group of senators Tuesday to talk about the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has benefited hundreds of thousands of undocumented youths.

The result of the private meeting, first reported by Politico, was a pledge by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to present a list of border security and immigration policy changes to be included in any legislative fix to help DACA recipients. Sources told Politico that Kelly could return with a new list of demands within days. According to people who attended the meeting, the new plan may come in January, and it would allow nearly 800,000 DACA immigrants, who were brought illegally to the United States as minors, to continue to work and study in the country. Politico said a half-dozen senators have been working to come up with a bipartisan solution on DACA. They were prompted by President Donald Trump's announcement in September that the DACA program would end. It is set to expire March 5, and work permits that have not been renewed will begin to be phased out at that time.

Maro Park, left, of Fairfax, Virginia, holds a sign saying "Congress Must Act Now," next to Paola Marquez and LaRia Land, both of Silver Spring, Maryland, as they stand by a banner of the Lady of Guadalupe, during a march with others in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, on Capitol Hill​

Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona said senators could not reach an agreement until they knew what the Trump administration was inclined to sign. "We couldn't finish this product, this bill, until we knew where the administration was. ... And that's why this meeting was so important," Flake told Politico after the meeting with Kelly. Also on Wednesday, Trump renewed his immigration priorities. At a Cabinet meeting, the president vowed to end the diversity visa program, known as the the green card lottery, and cut family-based immigration, which critics call chain migration. He also called on Congress to fund his proposed border wall. "When we take people that are lottery — [other countries] are not putting their best people in the lottery. It's common sense. … They put their worst people into the lottery. And that's what we get, in many cases. So that's not going to be happening anymore. We're going to end it," Trump said.

No near-term DACA solution

Lawmakers in both parties said Tuesday that Congress was not expected to resolve the DACA issue before next year. Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, also attended the meeting and said the closer officials get to the March deadline "the more nervous I get, not to mention the way these young people feel. I'm sorry that it's taken this long. "Our belief is that if this matter is not resolved this week ... that we have another chance to finally come up with a bipartisan package of things to include" by mid-January, Durbin said.

Pro-Trump supporters try to interrupt a speech by Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., at a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at the University of California-Irvine​

Meanwhile, DACA recipients opened Dream Act Central, a tent space on Washington's National Mall that is serving as headquarters for a final push to urge Congress to pass legislation replacing the DACA program. A large-screen television at the site, which faces Capitol Hill, shows stories of young undocumented immigrants, known informally as Dreamers. The term is based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, that would have provided residence and employment protections for young immigrants similar to those in DACA.

Senators, White House Working on DACA Deal

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

DACA was Obama's pandering to the racist Aztlan Nationalist Democrat Voters who do not accept that America is a sovereign country with borders and immigration laws.

 

[USApatriotz]

God I hope the crackpot moderate Republicans don't try to ram this unconstitutional DACA down our throats in the coming weeks & months!

Reagan already gave amnesty to MILLIONS in 1986 which only attracted MORE illegals! You can't keep giving amnesty because then there will be a need for yet ANOTHER amnesty a few years down the road!!

Conscientious members of Congress should not give in to this threat. Amnesty will encourage even more illegal immigration — just as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act did.

That bill provided citizenship to 2.7 million illegal aliens. Yet by 1995, another 5.7 million illegal aliens were residing in the U.S. Many of them crossed the border to join their newly legalized friends and family. Others, no doubt, believed that since the U.S. provided amnesty once, it would do so again.

DACA demographics show less-ideal Dreamers than media image