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President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm and fulfill one of the presidents core campaign promises.
Conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who argued that Congress rather than the executive branch is responsible for writing immigration law, helped persuade the president to terminate the program, the two sources said, though White House aides caution that as with everything in the Trump White House nothing is set in stone until an official announcement has been made.
In a nod to reservations held by many lawmakers, the White House plans to delay the enforcement of the presidents decision for six months, giving Congress a window to act, according to one White House official. But a senior White House aide said that chief of staff John Kelly, who has been running the West Wing policy process on the issue, thinks Congress shouldve gotten its act together a lot longer ago.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-dreamers-immigration-daca-immigrants-242301
MFM008
(19,808 posts)OBAMA.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)to a sad problem.
global1
(25,245 posts)I listened to the 10pm news here in Chicago and the story is that Trump will announce his decision on Tuesday. Is our reaction here strictly from the Politico story or has the decision been made and already announced?