Business Leaders Urge Trump to Leave DACA Alone After Court Ruling

NY Times ^ | 7/11/2020 | Maggie Haberman

[semimojo]

A group of prominent business leaders urged President Trump on Saturday to leave in place a program affecting roughly 800,000 young immigrants who are shielded from deportation, saying it would disrupt the economy and impact the battle against the coronavirus...

The signers of the letter included executives with Amazon, General Motors, Hilton Worldwide, Target, Apple, Google and Facebook, as well as groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and almost every sector of the manufacturing industry

“This is no time to disrupt the economic recovery of our companies and communities, nor time to jeopardize the health and safety of these vulnerable individuals,” the letter said

“DACA is going to be just fine,” Mr. Trump said, adding that he was going to issue a “big executive order. I have the power to do it as president and I’m going to make DACA a part of it.”

Then he immediately said, “But, we put it in, and we’ll probably going to then be taking it out.” At another point, he said that it would be a “very big bill” that would call for merit-based immigration and include a DACA provision. He then said there would be a “road to citizenship” in the executive order — which he repeatedly confused with a piece of legislation. Presidents cannot create a pathway to citizenship without congressional action.

Almost immediately after Mr. Trump’s interview, a White House spokesman issued a statement that was quite different from what the president said. The statement said that Mr. Trump was working on an executive order to “establish a merit-based immigration system to further protect U.S. workers,” something that the White House has been planning for weeks. The statement made clear it would not relate to DACA or a “road to citizenship.”

[caww]

.....”A lot of them didn't know the rules when they were brought here”.....

Well they certainly did when they applied for the Daca Program..DACA was a renewable 2-year period of deferred action ‘from deportation’ and was never intended as a path to citizenship for recipients nor permanent lawful status...So they had to apply for DACA, pay a $495 application fee, submit forms, and produce documents showing they meet the requirements. So they're certainly not illiterate.

[semimojo]

Well they certainly did when they applied for the Daca Program.

The claim was they knew when they came (or were brought here).

[EinNYC]

GET RID OF DACA! The entire American public should not have to foot the bill for these illegal criminal invaders to have a free ride, just so those big businesses can have cheap employees. Those business “leaders” are nothing but self-serving b___s.

[octex]

Start the DACA deportations with those who have gotten law degrees! They are trouble makers.