Just hours after the Trump administration announced it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, President Donald Trump said that he would “revisit” DACA if Congress failed to pass a bill with the program’s policies.
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
It’s not clear how Trump would “revisit” DACA without the help of Congress after he claimed on Tuesday that he ended the program in an attempt to limit the executive branch’s power.
By nixing DACA, Trump fulfilled a major campaign promise after he ran on a platform attacking immigrants. However, once in office, Trump wavered on the issue and said that he would treat DACA recipients with “great heart.” He echoed this sentiment Tuesday afternoon, saying he has “great love” for DACA recipients and urging Congress to act on the matter.
Donnie don’t like bad reviews.
But since his word carries zero weight, this is all just smoke and mirrors, bait and switch, lying and hoping people forget (here’s news for you, Donnie, we won’t forget).
That’s reassuring.
Wait, so the DACA executive action by Obama was presidential overreach that threatened the Constitutional balance of the nation, but if Congress doesn’t act Trump will do it again?
The other thing that hit me was this is like setting a withdrawal date from Iraq which gives the bad guys an out, by saying he’ll take care of it if Congress doesn’t he gave them an out.
I´m sure that the DACA kids will rest a little easier tonight.
I don´t imagine that he´s trying to give Congress an out. The six month ¨reprieve¨ itself was nothing but Trump´s attempt to lessen criticism of him by foisting the decision on a non-functioning Congress. In terms of public opinion, that didn´t go over too well, so now he´s trying to diffuse the mess by making another vague ¨promise¨ which, like all previous instances of feigned ¨decency¨, will go nowhere.
By March ´18 he´ll be saying something. equally reassuring. And meaningless.
Listening to Morning Joe again—the joys of being in the US.
Trump didn’t anticipate the reaction to his decision. Oh, come on.
Ah, the morning movements: