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“Let’s be clear: House Republicans went after DACA the moment it was signed by President Obama, and helped pave the way for President Trump’s mass deportation machine, which is now poised to target DREAMers,” said Javier Gamboa of the DCCC. “House Republicans’ long record of hostility toward immigrants has put 800,000 DACA recipients in limbo and at risk of possible deportation. This is what Republicans stand for, and as long as they control Congress, the livelihood of law-abiding immigrants and DACA recipients will remain at risk.”
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The GOP Wants DACA Dead: How Republicans are extorting Trump into deporting 800,000 young people.
SLATE
By Mark Joseph Stern
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/08/how_republicans_are_extorting_trump_into_killing_daca.html
[…] “It’s important to note, though, that phasing out DACA wasn’t Trump’s idea. Rather, the bulk of the blame for killing DACA will fall on the Republican Party.”
“Republicans criticized DACA as executive overreach and successfully sued to block Obama from expanding the program to the undocumented parents of lawful residents. The 2016 Republican Party platform slammed DACA as “unlawful amnest[y],” and Trump promised to end it. But his Department of Homeland Security has continued to issue and renew DACA permits even as its law enforcement wing occasionally targets DACA recipients for deportation. In June, DHS announced that DACA would remain in effect for the time being.”
“Shortly thereafter, a coalition of Republicans sent Attorney General Jeff Sessions an ultimatum: Kill DACA by Sept. 5 or we’ll take you to court […]”
[…] If and when Trump formally ends DACA, he will be rightly criticized for depriving nearly 800,000 people of their liberty and livelihood. The move will be particularly egregious in light of his overt sympathy for violent white supremacists like Charlottesville’s neo-Nazis and Joe Arpaio. It will be interpreted, correctly, as an attack on the Hispanic community—a further effort to drive Latinos into hiding and out of the country. In many ways, it is a distillation of Trumpism.”
“But it was the pre-Trump Republican Party that sank the DREAM Act and assailed DACA from the start, and it is Republicans outside the administration who seem poised to force Trump to kill it. Hostility toward dreamers—young undocumented immigrants who may have known no other home but America—is mainstream in the modern GOP. If it weren’t, Republicans would’ve helped pass the DREAM Act long ago. Trump will take a lot flack for ending DACA, and he’ll deserve it. But the truth is that Republican politicians forced his hand. Republican xenophobia predates Trump, and it’ll outlive him, too.”