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.
The administration’s deliberations on the issue have been fluid and fast moving, and the president has faced strong warnings from members of his own party not to scrap the program.
Trump has wrestled for months with whether to do away with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. But 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 and kick the issue to Congress, the two sources said.
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.”
This is probably one of the most popular policy decisions that President Obama made during his two terms, so of course Trump needs to shit on it.
And by the way the press needs to stop promoting the White House's spin that Trump has "wrestled" with this. The only thing Trump wrestles with is his pants when he struggles to slide his gargantuan ass into them in the morning.
Trump wants to erase ALL of President Obama's legacies. So of course he is going after DACA.
And even though Paul Ryan and other top Republicans are not exactly on board with this decision, they seem to believe that Congress is the place for creating immigration policy.
However I would point out that the reason Obama implemented DACA was because Congress could not get off their ass and really do anything meaningful about immigration in the first place.
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