According to Politico, el Trumpolini is going to end Obama’s amnesty, aka DACA, aka The “Dream Act.”
Here’s how it happened:
President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill one of the president’s core campaign promises.
Trump has wrestled for months with whether to do away with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. He has faced strong warnings from members of his own party not to scrap the program and struggled with his own misgivings about targeting minors for deportation.
Conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who argued that Congress — rather than the executive branch — is responsible for writing immigration law, helped persuade the president to terminate the program, the two sources said, though White House aides caution that — as with everything in the Trump White House — nothing is set in stone until an official announcement has been made.
BUT THERE’S A CATCH:
In a nod to reservations held by many lawmakers, the White House plans to delay the enforcement of the president’s decision for six months, giving Congress a window to act, according to one White House official. But a senior White House aide said that chief of staff John Kelly, who has been running the West Wing policy process on the issue, “thinks Congress should’ve gotten its act together a lot longer ago.”
WOW.
That gives Congress a loophole to pass something and save DACA – if there’s the political will for it.
You can be illegal alien advocates will freak out to push passage of legislation to save the Dream Act. And that means there will be pushback from the right.
Let the games begin!!
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Here are some previous posts on the subject:
Jeff Flake: ‘Dream Act’ recipients shouldn’t be punished ‘for the sins of their parents’
Major state’s Republican GOV comes out AGAINST Trump shutting down DREAM amnesty act…
“We love the Dreamers” – Trump just announced decision on DACA to come today or this weekend [VIDEO]