Trump administration talking points tell a different story from the president’s public remarks.
“Trump administration officials worried ahead of the announcement Tuesday of a phaseout of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that President Trump didn't fully understand what the move would mean,” according to The Hill.
But if Donald Trump didn’t understand the consequences of his decision he has no business being President of the United States.
Trump says he loves the Dreamers. “I have a great heart for the folks we are talking about.” He is only acting as if he has a heart to satisfy his supporters. I doubt if the man has ever told the truth. Trump's lies have no boundaries.
It is said that Trump didn’t have a choice. But as President, he did have a choice to do what is morally right. But instead, he is kicking out 800,000 young people out of a country they have come to know as their home. It’s clearly un-American. It’s inexplicably cruel.
Republicans Senator majority leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan say Trump made the right decision. That the legislative process belongs with Congress and not with the President. So where were they over the past 16 years when advocates for legalizing young immigrants brought here illegally by their parents have tried to pass legislation to shield them from deportation. The legislation was called the Dream Act, and in Congress and in the Bush and Obama administrations, whether it was a stand-alone bill or comprehensive immigration legislation, it failed again and again, -- the New York Times.
From Mother Jones:
After moving to end protections from deportation for nearly 800,000 undocumented youths known as Dreamers, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he loves the young immigrants affected by his decision. “I have a great heart for the folks we are talking about,” Trump said, adding, “Hopefully now Congress will be able to help them and do it properly.”
But talking points put out by the administration tell a different story. Instead of instructing recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections to wait while Congress works out a legislative solution that gives them legal status, the talking points say Dreamers should prepare to leave to the country. The document states, “The Department of Homeland Security urges DACA recipients to use the time remaining on their work authorizations to prepare for and arrange their departure from the United States—including proactively seeking travel documentation—or to apply for other immigration benefits for which they may be eligible.” Multiple sources have attributed the document to the White House. It was sent to congressional Republicans, according to a source on Capitol Hill.
Leading immigration advocates said the White House is urging Dreamers to self-deport. Tom Jawetz, the vice president for immigration policy at the Center for American Progress
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