McCain Opposes Ending DACA, Says He Will Work On Comprehensive Reform

Trump himself has publicly agonized and wavered over the fate of the young immigrants since arriving in the White House, calling it one of the most hard decisions facing him, and declaring in the Oval Office last week: ‘We love the Dreamers’.

But not all in Congress, or even Trump’s own Republican Party, agree with the decision. “Stand up. Fight back”. Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.

DACA has provided almost 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the U.S. While there is considerable support for that among Democrats and moderate Republicans, Congress is already facing a packed fall agenda and has had a poor track record in recent years for passing immigration-related bills. Vidal is now 26.

“The program knowns as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded”, Sessions said, calling it an “unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch”.

But the program’s many defenders say DACA recipients should not be punished for decisions made by their parents and are making valuable contributions to US society.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a statement that the government “promised” DACA recipients they wouldn’t be deported. “America should keep its promises, and if President Trump doesn’t know that, then Congress must pass legislation to make the DACA program permanent”.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces an end to protections for young immigrants.

Ten state attorneys general, however, threatened legal action against the White House if the administration didn’t end the program, which was implemented by former President Barack Obama through an executive order – a move the AGs say was overreach.

“The larger issue here is (Trump) is going to try to leverage this, he is going to use these vulnerable kids as a tool in Congressional negotiation to get something from Congress that he wants – whether it’s the wall or more enforcement of immigration of adults”, said Washington’s Superintendent for Public Instruction Chris Reykdal. CREDIT: Esther Y. Lee Immigrants and advocates take to the White House to protest President Trump ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. Ferguson said he had been in contact with them. They were brought to the USA illegally as children or came with families who overstayed visas.

The Trump administration on Tuesday formally announced the end of DACA – a program that had protected almost 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. They were brought here by family members as young children and usually know no other home.

Nine Republican state attorneys general have said they would file suit on Tuesday if Trump did not end the program. They say the program was on shaky legal ground and would not have survived legal challenges in the courts.

“I can only work through DACA”, Amaya said at the roundtable.

In a Tuesday note to employees obtained by MacRumors, Cook said he was “deeply dismayed” by the DOJ’s decision, which he called a “setback for our nation”.

US President Donald Trump has started dismantling a government programme which protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children. But his FWD.us organization, which has advocated for immigration reform, was behind an open letter last week signed by leaders of almost 400 companies urging Congress to pass legislation to provide a permanent fix for the young undocumented immigrants.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will phase out the program in six months.

Following the DACA tweet, Trump pivoted to the situation with North Korea. He argues that this “surely embodies a core notion of fair process substantively as well as procedural, that Trump is essentially breaching by telling them that their fate will be up to what an invertebrate Congress cobbles together, if it manages to do anything at all, once six months have elapsed”. In New York, we are stepping up to protect immigrants.

In Los Angeles, marchers are gathering downtown.