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Administration officials say he's conflicted between his instinct to be tough on immigration and his personal feelings.
By ANDREW RESTUCCIA and ELIANA JOHNSON 08/30/2017 04:58 AM EDT
President Donald Trump often bristles at the constraints imposed on him by his aides, yet when it comes to Obama-era protections for young undocumented immigrants, he is at war with himself.
The president has waffled between his campaign pledge to kill the policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and his sympathy for the nearly 800,000 people whose lives could be upended if its repealed, aides say.
As an unofficial Sept. 5 deadline looms, there are growing signs that Trump will decide to phase out the program. But administration officials say he remains conflicted, trying to find a middle ground that balances his instinct to be tough on immigration and his personal feelings.
Trumps final decision could drastically change the lives of the countrys Dreamers. Participants in the program which permits some people who were brought to the United States as children to live and work in the country temporarily worry they could lose their jobs or be subject to possible deportation if the program is suddenly ended.
DACA critics say Trumps sympathy for Dreamers shouldnt sway his decision. Having sympathy for people who were brought here as children is not at all inconsistent with the acknowledgment that the DACA program is just absurdly unconstitutional. Those two things are not contradictory, said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors lower levels of immigration.
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Wounded Bear
(58,766 posts)he's trying to figure out a way to be an asshole, while maintaining his shrinking public support.
There is not majority support for destroying DACA, much like all of his policies.
awesomerwb1
(4,269 posts)keep quoting Krikorian from CIS or any other members of CIS, FAIR, NumbersUSA (I believe all founded by the same dude John Tanton who is a white nationalist) who have been designated as hate groups by SPLC.