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only to individuals who had DACA status, or also applies to those who would have qualified had the policy not been rescinded.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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Panic? No. These are anti-Trump retreads, and some never-Trump diehards that Jim did not ban outright but should have. Their reaction is not panic - it’s contemptuous loathing, and salivating at any opportunity, on the slightest turn of a phrase, to take a dump on Trump. That’s what these jerk-offs are all about. That’s what they’ve always been about from the beginning.
Ouch.
Who gets the first souvenir pen at the signing? Pelosi? Barack Obama? Luis Gutierrez?
It will be one of the greatest political betrayals in U.S. political history. Run on "a wall", but enact a massive illegal alien amnesty.
Yeah but I warned this is what you would get. Dang just dang.
IT is time to throw down the pitch forks and grab some serious message getter.
And these dumba$$es in DC are wondering why illegal border crossings are UP in the south.
These dunces in DC just do not get it and it is time for them to be removed from office with a light coating of tar and feathers.
This will be war if this happens. It will be a burning of the bra moment but it will be ballot boxes instead
He’s killing the chances of our Constitution being supported in future elections period.
This 3 million plus plus chain migration will be the end conservative electoral victories ever after. It always was that if you diluted American voters with enough leftist immigrants, the country would be lost.
Mega booooo!
Roto-Reuters == Fake News
Lol.. come on where are the winning posts?
There were plenty of them when he made the Schumer p elosi deal.. ya know the blank check for every entitlement including Obama care.
The chance to stop illegal immigration ended when Reagan approved amnesty and the two parties said “oh yeah” to it.
>>The only way to get even is to install someone worse, and possibly even let a Democrat appoint the next SCOTUS justices.
SMH. That sounds a lot like the “reasoning” some RINO super genius “conservatives” used to justify voting for Comrade Chairman Flex-O-bumble in 2008.
“Just let the plebes see how bad things can get without an (R) in charge... then they’ll clap again”.
{ not clapping }
>>Pretty soon it’s going to be war.
The Crisis phase described by Bezmenov.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3591491/posts
>>Where’s the wall?
“You’d be in jail”
{ crickets crickets crickets }
We seeing a pattern, in addition to demonstrating a consistent inability to articulate America’s founding ideological principles, here?
Maybe so. I hope so.
But, until there’s some type of push back from the WH, there’s no way of knowing.
Amazing, isn’t it???
We finally get someone who is NOT a “professional politician” in the White House...A person who has so far held the real American in his interest, and yet, the first utterance from any anonymous lackey from EITHER political party causes some in here to forecast gloom and doom and revert back to pure politics...
Get a grip, people...Unless we get behind this movement AWAY from “professional politics”, it is going to go right back to where we were before...
The whole political system is scared to death of Donald Trump because he is NOT one of the political insiders who have done whatever they wished for so long, no matter what the everyday, normal American wishes for...
We have the chance to change things...Don’t blow it....
True.. when I heard the Russians may have used bots for the election I thought immediately of about ten “people” here on FR..
I also listen to some conservative talk.. when I hear the phrase “I am one hundred percent behind the president” I shudder. They sound like obamabots.
No. rational person would be one hundred percent behind anyone. This country was built on rational thought and heated discourse.. Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea.. one hundred percent behind their dear leader.
Why is that? We have a whole new set of elected pols now. But this amnesty from Trump will probably push the electorate sufficiently to the left to snuff out hope of retaining our constitutional government.
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