Congress to consider alternatives to DACA

“Now I won’t even be able to work at all”.

President Trump’s decision to wipe out deportation reprieves for young undocumented immigrants has unleashed a frenzied rush to renew 154,000 permits before an October 5 deadline, a process advocacy groups say will cost millions of dollars in fees and stretch their resources to the limit.

“I’m anxious about losing the House now because of this – because of DACA”, Steve Bannon said in a prerecorded interview to be broadcast in full Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes”, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

President Donald Trump is trying to reassure the hundreds of thousands of immigrants in a program his administration announced it is ending.

“Most of all, it’s wrong because it’s cruel to send these young people to places many of them have never lived and do not know”, Clinton said. They did not make an active choice to come here, but they now have active roles here. Then he decided he wanted them to have it enough to ignore the formality of the law.

The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis cites research from both the left-leaning Center for American Progress and the conservative Cato Institute, which estimate that gradually deporting immigrants protected under DACA could cost the country billions in Gross Domestic Product.

“It was the biggest rally I’ve seen for this issue”, she reports.

Second, and most significant, we must talk about immigration reform.

While the theme of Wednesday’s press conference was “we need to do something” time will only tell if Congress actually does.

Since the Tuesday’s announcement, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed tweeted his continuing support of DACA, as did Rep. Hank Johnson of the state’s Fourth District.

“As his summer of near constant chaos ends, President Trump faces a series of challenges more hard than any he has dealt with up to this point”, Meyers said.

Evidently, President Donald Trump needed to feel good about himself, and wanted a cry of joy from his anti-immigrant base, so he chose to attack another policy passed by the Obama administration. Legislation to protect 800,000 #Dreamers is an economic & humanitarian imperative.

Because many are now adults, they would face a 3- or 10-year bar from reentering the U.S. Not to mention all their connections, progress, friends, and family are in the U.S. They are American in every way but paper.

SUYA leader Rodriguez isn’t giving up either. “There’s a way to weave this, and I think that’s what we’re going to be looking for”. Many of them have gone to college and built careers here, and have a lot to contribute to this country.