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The Trump Administration Has Announced the End of DACA -- Unless Congress Can Act To Save It (recode.net)
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it plans to scrap a program that allows about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children to stay and work in the country, shrugging off criticism from within the president's own party and prominent business figures. From a report: The Trump administration is essentially leaving Congress a six-month window of time to try to save it. The legal shield is known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and since its enactment in 2012, it has allowed roughly 800,000 undocumented young adults to live in the United States and obtain work authorizations every two years. [...] In practice, implementation is complicated. Those previously approved under DACA, with the permission to work in the United States, can continue to work without interruption until those approvals expire. And those who have already applied for protection or are seeking renewals will still have their applications considered by the U.S. government. For those whose permits are set to expire before March 5, 2018, though, the U.S. government will also allow them to renew their DACA status -- provided their applications are received before Oct. 5, 2017. Currently, there are about 201,000 young adults whose authorizations are set to expire this year, officials at the Department of Homeland Security explained Tuesday.
Tech giants like Apple, Facebook and Google are no doubt going to blast the Trump administration's decision: Last week, those executives joined more than 400 other business leaders in calling on the president to preserve DACA. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who previously (and privately) pressed Trump on the issue, said on Sunday that 250 of his "co-workers" would be affected by the change. Microsoft indicated that about 27 workers spanning fields like finance and sales would be hurt from Trump's move. Zuckerberg said, "This is a sad day for our country. The decision to end DACA is not just wrong. It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American Dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it."
Tech giants like Apple, Facebook and Google are no doubt going to blast the Trump administration's decision: Last week, those executives joined more than 400 other business leaders in calling on the president to preserve DACA. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who previously (and privately) pressed Trump on the issue, said on Sunday that 250 of his "co-workers" would be affected by the change. Microsoft indicated that about 27 workers spanning fields like finance and sales would be hurt from Trump's move. Zuckerberg said, "This is a sad day for our country. The decision to end DACA is not just wrong. It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American Dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it."
I don't know what this is, but since this comes from Trump and I'm a (Democrat/Republican) this is therefore the (worst/best) thing in a long line of (bad/good) things to come from Trump that can do no (right/wrong).
Even Paul Ryan has spoken out against this. He's not Jeff Sessions, but he's also not the poster-boy for human compassion and tolerance toward anyone and anything he disagrees with. Ryan speaks of human compassion, of understanding, of the circumstances of a teenager being brought with parents to this country and growing up as an American. These are weighty things we must consider.
These people are here, they're working in our economy, and ejecting them is disruptive and costly. They've been around long enough to no longer have an impact on job availability--our labor force adjusts rapidly--and removing them will create temporary job openings, followed by a labor force adjustment to increase the proportion of job-seekers and return us to this current baseline. There's no economic benefit to ending DACA.
On the other hand, DACA provides us documentation as to the existence and location of a subset of illegal immigrants. We keep them renewing work permits. They pay taxes. They get an SSN now instead of an ITIN; if they become citizens, their work counts toward Social Security credit; and, as non-citizen residents, they are ineligible for Social Security benefits unless and until they receive said citizenship.
We have established a trust relationship between these people and ourselves. If we violate that trust--and we have already violated it by suggesting we might--then why would any undocumented immigrant ever present themselves to any government identification system ever again?
The Republicans are willing to speak out; they hardly need to even vote to pass this into law.
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Only by changing the definition of "deport" so sycophants like you can have a script to follow while trolling.
No, you should stop reading Breitbart news. You are wrong.
Try this article from Snopes.
Any change in definition happened under Bush, not Obama.
More explanation here. Unless you would like to claim that Obama was president in 1996?
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