President Donald Trump said Friday that he would announce a decision on the future of the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” program (DACA) “sometime today or over the weekend.”
“Should Dreamers be worried?” a reporter in the Oval Office scrum asked next, using a shorthand for young undocumented immigrants who have been shielded from deportation by DACA.
“We love the Dreamers,” he said. “We love everybody. Thank you very much.”
“What do you say to the Dreamers who are scared right now?” a reporter asked later.
“I think the Dreamers are terrific,” Trump replied.
In subsequent pool footage from the Oval Office, Trump speculated that his decision could come as late as Monday. He added: “Great feeling for DACA.”
The comments marked more empty rhetoric from the President. Though he has not touched the DACA program so far, he pledged to eliminate it during the 2016 presidential campaign and has since only assured DACA recipients that his administration would “show great heart,” toward them.
Ten Republican attorneys general have threatened to sue to end the program if Trump does not rescind the executive order that former President Barack Obama used to create it by Sept. 5.
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“Friday or over the weekend”
– The precise timing gauged to create the maximum distraction away from unfolding events damaging to the unpresident.
Cue the “repeal-and-replace” tweet in 3 … 2 … 1 …
“"We love the Dreamers,” he said. “We love everybody. Thank you very much.”
“What do you say to the Dreamers who are scared right now?” a reporter asked later.
“I think Dreamers are terrific,” Trump replied."
“I love Dreamers so much I plan to destroy their lives by deporting them to a country they don’t know,” Trump added.
Doesnt make any sense…what an idiot…playing diversion over the comey info coming out today.?.
Btw, OT but important. I just found out there’s a website that tracks the themes of the messaging from Russian twitterbots. I am amazed that I only just today heard about this. It ought to be daily reading for everyone who has to deal with feral Trumpers or the people who take Bernie to the cultish level, or even those who just care about democracy.
The Russians are still at it. This is the thing that people aren’t getting. It didn’t stop on Election Day. It never stopped. Russian intelligence services’ continue to use social media to drive pro-Trump, and more generally, anti-democratic memes into the our discourse and, particularly, into the sealed echo chambers True Believers have sealed themselves into on Facebook.
http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
*Update: turns out it wasn’t OT. “DACA” is the top trending hashtag of the Russian bots over the last 48 hours.