DACA - The Art of the Deal
Yesterday afternoon, President Trump sent his Attorney General to do his dirty work. Attorney General Sessions announced that the administration would be discontinuing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program which had protected 800,000 undocumented immigrants who had been brought to the US as minors. While a majority of the American people and Congress appear to support DACA, elections have consequences. President Trump does not. Or maybe he does.
Anyway, while the announcement was terrible news for millions of people in our country, not just the 800,000 currently protected by DACA, they had to listen to AG Sessions slander them in his press conference and demonstrate how little he knows about immigration.
Sessions claims that the extension of DACA to people who had arrived in our country before 2007 was responsible for the unaccompanied minors crisis seven years later, in 2014.
Sessions proclaimed that the rule of law was at stake, days after pardoning Sheriff Apaio who had been accused of violating the rule of law to harass people who "look" Latino, US citizen or not.
Sessions claimed that DACA recipients stole US jobs, when most evidence indicates that they have been a net positive to the economy. Their deportation will damage the economy, an unusual move for someone like Trump who campaigned on a slogan of Make America Great Again. Why the self-inflicted economic wound?
If the "illegal amnesty" of 2007 caused the unaccompanied minors crisis of 2014 and cost American workers hundreds of thousands of jobs, one would expect the President to finally put an end to such damage to the American people and economy. Instead, he called on Congress to get to work, presumably to make DACA law.
He gave Congress six months to fix the program that he announced he was dismantling, a program that benefited 800,000 people who call the United States home. If they didn't, DACA was going to be phased out. Hours later, though, he appeared to have changed his mind.
Should Congress not meet the deadline that he set, he will "revisit this issue!" Asking Congress to make law a policy that had such "devastating" effects does not make sense. Passing the buck to Congress and then giving Members a firm deadline to resolve the legal status of nearly one million people in our country, only to walk back that deadline hours later, makes absolutely no sense. The Art of the Deal for which a minority of the people voted.
Anyway, while the announcement was terrible news for millions of people in our country, not just the 800,000 currently protected by DACA, they had to listen to AG Sessions slander them in his press conference and demonstrate how little he knows about immigration.
Sessions claims that the extension of DACA to people who had arrived in our country before 2007 was responsible for the unaccompanied minors crisis seven years later, in 2014.
Sessions proclaimed that the rule of law was at stake, days after pardoning Sheriff Apaio who had been accused of violating the rule of law to harass people who "look" Latino, US citizen or not.
Sessions claimed that DACA recipients stole US jobs, when most evidence indicates that they have been a net positive to the economy. Their deportation will damage the economy, an unusual move for someone like Trump who campaigned on a slogan of Make America Great Again. Why the self-inflicted economic wound?
If the "illegal amnesty" of 2007 caused the unaccompanied minors crisis of 2014 and cost American workers hundreds of thousands of jobs, one would expect the President to finally put an end to such damage to the American people and economy. Instead, he called on Congress to get to work, presumably to make DACA law.
Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2017
He gave Congress six months to fix the program that he announced he was dismantling, a program that benefited 800,000 people who call the United States home. If they didn't, DACA was going to be phased out. Hours later, though, he appeared to have changed his mind.
Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can't, I will revisit this issue!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2017
Should Congress not meet the deadline that he set, he will "revisit this issue!" Asking Congress to make law a policy that had such "devastating" effects does not make sense. Passing the buck to Congress and then giving Members a firm deadline to resolve the legal status of nearly one million people in our country, only to walk back that deadline hours later, makes absolutely no sense. The Art of the Deal for which a minority of the people voted.
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