Posted on 06/09/2017 1:23:17 PM PDT by TBP
The Trump administration has approved tens of thousands of temporary amnesties for illegal immigrant Dreamers, according to numbers released Thursday that underscore a major reversal for President Trump.
The decision has enraged the president’s conservative base, which hoped he would make good on his promise to revoke the policy, known in governmentspeak as DACA.
But immigrant rights advocates, who were harshly critical of Mr. Trump during the campaign, said he deserves some credit for defying his right wing and keeping the program intact.
“I definitely think that he does deserve credit for continuing a very successful program for young people who grew up here,” said Cesar Vargas, a Dreamer who is now a practicing lawyer.
Mr. Trump appears to be maintaining the pace of the Obama administration, with more than 17,000 new two-year amnesties and more than 107,000 renewal applications approved from Jan. 1 to March 30. Both numbers are comparable to the final full three months of President Obama’s tenure.
All told, some 780,000 Dreamers have been granted DACA status under the 2012 program, amounting to a 92 percent approval rate. DACA protects against deportation for two years and grants work permits and entitles the immigrants to benefits such as driver’s licenses and some tax credits.
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I am, now that I know about it. It stinks!
His political capital should be spent on building the wall. Until that is done, deportations are more like a revolving door.
Probably close to 100 percent.
He’s told all of us when an answer is found “We’ll all be happy. WELL, at the moment there is no answer in concrete, nothing in the small details, nada. I’ll wait to get my panties in a wad until the word from the President, himself, is heard. Then, if need be there will be repercussion’s.
DREAMERS = ANCHOR BABIES = EVENTUAL MASSIVE AMNESTY = FUTURE MASSIVE ADDITIONAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Tsk! Tsk! Shouting won’t help anyone. ;-) If you had to keep one rapist in order to deport one Dreamer, would you do it?
Remember, Donald Trump keeps his promises in ways that turn out much better than one would think possible.
>a Dreamer who is now a practicing lawyer.<
Great. An illegal activist, who is genetically a socialist, is now an attorney.
Why are we poisoning ourselves with this scum?
WTF is the matter with the Donald?
Sh!t. Don’t tell me he’s starting to ‘grow’ in office.
It is permanent, if Mr. Trump is unwilling to undo an illegal exec. order now due to political pressure, there is no way he is going to deport the thousands he let stay under his watch...such as the person quoted in the article...now a 20 something lawyer: “...said Cesar Vargas, a Dreamer who is now a practicing lawyer.”.
Transcript: Donald Trump's full immigration speech, annotated
Sometimes Google is not your friend.
Unless they have committed a crime the odds that anyone who was brought here by their parents as children and who have never lived in Mexico or any other country getting deported is Zero.
Trump needs our support on 100 different issues in which he is the most conservative president since Reagan. This is pretty much a non issue.
Let’s think about this a little bit. If President Trump had issued an Executive Order ending DACA, what would the Left had done? Sued him to stop it, right? Read these executive orders, that have not been challenged, and see if they don’t advance the agenda without the blow back?
If true this will not bode well for the mid terms. It is one of the main things Trump ran on.
I am not enraged....I expect that we’re getting mostly latinos and not moslems, at least I hope..
Until I hear it from the president himself, I don’t buy it.
lol
Haters gotta hate.
The guy is single handedly righting the ship for America.
He’s not perfect. I didn’t vote for God.
I am not enraged.
The GOP Congress needs to work with DJT to repeal Obamacare and lower taxes.
Trump is busy de-regulating, getting allies to pay their fair share for defense, and doing what he can to kill terrorists.
Priorities. And a bunch of kids born or brought here by illegal alien parents are not top of my list.
Besides, I don’t think it IS amnesty in the historic sense or definition. Amnesty means permanent resident legal status, possibility of citizenship and voting rights, etc.
Isn’t that the amnesty Reagan granted back in the 80s? Trump is not doing that....
Heck, that would be true for the legal ones.
Bullshit, I am!
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