Posted on 10/03/2017 12:42:44 PM PDT by qam1
The Trump administration would support legislation allowing illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to gain lawful permanent status and eventually citizenship, a Department of Homeland Security official said in testimony to Congress on Tuesday.
The Trump administration last month ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which began in 2012 under former President Barack Obama and offered nearly 800,000 young people who came to the United States illegally as children protection from deportation and the right to work legally in the United States.
The administration said it ended DACA because Obama overstepped his constitutional authority by creating the policy unilaterally and without Congressional approval. President Donald Trump called on Congress to enact a law to protect DACA recipients, and last month angered some of his fellow Republicans by negotiating with congressional Democratic leaders on possible legislation.
"Under a rational bill these individuals would be able to become lawful permanent residents with a pathway to citizenship," Michael Dougherty, assistant DHS secretary for border, immigration and trade policy, said at a Senate hearing, in response to questioning on the Trump administration's position on whether "Dreamers," as they are often called, should be allowed to stay in the United States.
A DHS spokesman did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether the administration's stance applies only to individuals who had DACA status, or also applies to those who would have qualified had the policy not been rescinded.
Earlier in the hearing, when asked what Trump would like to see in a "DACA fix bill," Dougherty recited a list of the administration's immigration priorities, including border control, expanding the ability to quickly remove people who enter illegally and do not claim asylum, better vetting, reducing visa overstays, reforming non-immigrant business visas and establishing a merit-based system...
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Trump, the Democrats, and the RINOs get legal status for the DACAs.
Conservatives get a laundry list of anti-immigration laws and regulations...that will NEVER be enforced!
Amnesty if approved and signed by Trump is sell out of American, not MAGA, and Trump will be one-term president.
The Dems will rule for generations with their millions and millions of new dependent voters.
Where’s the wall?
Reuters or Yahoo. No reason to read their dishonest report.
I wouldn’t trust anything coming for reuters or yahoo.
Another campaign promise bites the dust. Tell me the difference again between Trump and other establishment Republicans?
Agree....
There are some that frequent FR who panic at anything right off the bat...
Most of them don’t want citizenship. They want to stay here without consequences or responsibilities. They want green cards. American citizenship is precious. Why should we give it to people who a)came here illegally and b)are not asking for citizenship.
If Trump does this along with chain migration of everybody in their hometown Trump will be finished. He might as well resign.
Last month Trump said he was close to a deal with top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer and top House of Representatives Democrat Nancy Pelosi on protections for DACA recipients that would have border security measures including surveillance systems but not funding for his planned wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, a central 2016 campaign promise.
After his meeting with the Democrats, Trump said, "We're not looking at citizenship" for the Dreamers.
But Pelosi and Schumer described their understanding with the president differently, saying that Trump had embraced the provisions of a bipartisan proposal called the Dream Act that would grant permanent legal resident status to Dreamers who qualify, and eventually, a pathway to U.S. citizenship.
Why citizenship? Why should they ever get more than a green card work permit?
They should never be citizens....ever.
It’s a slap in our face. If they want citizenship, yet should leave the country and apply.
I see the never Trumper’s are out in force here. This is nothing but a reiteration of what Trump said when he put DACA on hold a few months ago.
At the time he said that he was going to give the Congress 6 months to come up with a law which would take the place of Obama’s illegal executive order. Trump is only doing what he said he would do.
Here is video of the hearing in question --
C’mon, Fiddlstix...Don’t spoil their “pearl clutching” party...
For every Mexican allowed to live in America legally they petition on average 6 more of their relatives to come join them. So essentially its seven for the price of one! Deport every last one of them and their parents too!
True.
The bill floated a few weeks ago had a 15 year wait for "dreamers" before they could apply for naturalization. To me, that is akin to house arrest.
The normal penalty for being caught in the United States illegally is deportation and a ban on re-entry for 10 years. For those "dreamers" who are long-time residents in a community, they would still serve the 10 year penalty before the five-year clock starts on the residency requirement before being eligible for naturalization. They only penalty they wouldn't serve is the deportation.
But even without the proposed bill, the path to citizenship for illegals is to either: 1) self-deport and enter legally with a green card, maintain a residency for five years, apply for naturalization; or 2) turn themselves in and be deported, wait 10 years and then apply to enter legally with a green card, maintain a residency for five years, apply for naturalization.
-PJ
I not a never Trumper, I was one of his biggest supporters.
He said he would end DACA day one. He lied.
He should have ended it and that’s it. Giving it back to congress gives the RINOs the cover & opportunity to push through an amnesty bill.
I agree.
I’m not jumping to conclusions here.
Will my desires be served here, the rule of law?
I’ve had doubts all along the way.
I do hold out hope Trump will follow the current LAWs.
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