President Trump: “One of the aspects of the bill is going to be DACA. We are going to have a road to citizenship.”
Donald Trump said Friday that he will be signing an executive order in the next few weeks which will include a “road to citizenship” for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
“I’m going do a big executive order, I have the power to do it as president and I’m going to make DACA a part of it,” Trump said in an interview with Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart.
“But we’ll put it in and then we’re probably going to be taking it out. We’re working out the legal complexities right now,” Trump added, but did not expand on what he meant.
Trump, who has pledged to end DACA since he was on the campaign trail in 2015 when he called the program an “illegal executive order,” said that the bill wouldn’t just be for temporary relief but would be a far more encompassing merit-based bill.
DACA currently serves as a protection for young immigrants that were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, also referred to as Dreamers, to allow them to legally study, work and remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation.
While it is unclear whether the president can grant DACA recipients a path to citizenship through executive powers, he stated it is his intention Friday.
“One of the aspects of the bill is going to be DACA. We are going to have a road to citizenship,” Trump told Daiz-Balart.
Trump added that “one of the aspects of the bill that you will be very happy with and that a lot of people will be, including me and a lot of Republicans by the way, will be DACA.”
BREAKING: President Trump tells Telemundo’s @jdbalart he will sign an executive order on immigration that will include DACA in the coming weeks. #mtpdaily, #MSNBC #DonaldTrump , #PresidentTrump— Heidi Heitkamp (@HeitkampHeidi) July 11, 2020
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This shouldn’t be too surprising to anyone. He has actually gone back and forth on this issue quite a few times. According to some estimates, this might apply to 800,000 people on the lower end, and many many more depending on how they implement it.
I guess the good part of this is that it will finally put the issue to bed so that Democrats can’t beat Republicans over the head with it constantly. But, for those of us who are against citizenship for any illegal aliens, including those who were brought here as children, you have to wonder when it will stop….
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