President Donald Trump is expected to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which grants legal status to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, with a six month delay in implementation, according to several reports out Sunday night.
Politico was first to report the President’s plans for the DACA program, which Trump has teased for the pass few weeks. The President is expected to announce his final decision on the program Tuesday, which is the deadline a group of Republican state attorneys general gave the White House to end the program. The attorneys general plan to sue Trump if he does not roll back DACA, a policy implemented by former President Barack Obama.
Several other news outlets, including Reuters, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, confirmed that Trump is expected to end the DACA program with a delay in implementation.
The six month delay will give Congress time to restore the program through legislation before DACA recipients lost their legal status, as several Republican lawmakers have voiced support for a bill giving those known as DREAMers legal status.
Trump’s decision is not yet finalized, however, and the President is known for changing his mind at the last minute. It’s also not yet clear whether Trump’s policy phasing out DACA will allow DREAMers to renew their legal status within the six month period between the announcement and the policy’s enactment, the New York Times and Washington Post noted.
At least Donnie won’t be around in 6 months…
Donald Trump: The anti-Obama, the anti-everyone but himself, the anti-Christ, in a theater near you.
The announcement is still quite vague. Implementation could range from awful to horrendous:
Also worth noting is this is yet another blow to US credibility. These young people voluntarily handed over their information to the government, trusting that the program would continue and they’d be safe. Now it will be much easier to prove in court that they’re undocumented and thus deport-able.
Sometimes it just strikes me that this is the guy who emerged as the top Republican candidate for president… This is the person they put forward to lead their party. This anti-empathic narcissist is the person they said ok, we’ll back him.
And he lost. And he’s tearing us apart. And they let him linger there…
I’m now a Dreamer. Dreaming of the day when I don’t have to be appalled and embarrassed and disgusted and horrified and saddened and shocked and intensely angered by the President of my beloved country.
I posted this in The Hive, and I’ll post it here again: this isn’t about undoing Obama’s legacy. Trump’s mind is simpler and more reptilian than that. This is simply about doing the most dickish thing possible and getting away with it. That is the sole motivation behind all of Trump’s actions.