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struggle4progress

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Sun Sep 3, 2017, 10:28 PM Sep 2017

Surrogates say ending DACA good for workers [View all]

By Karoun Demirjian
September 3 at 6:23 PM

Surrogates .. said Sunday .. American workers would benefit by ending an Obama-era program that has let about 800,000 undocumented immigrant children work and study in the United States without fear of deportation, but congressional Republicans urged the White House to leave the program intact.

Trump "wants to do what’s fair to the American worker, what’s fair to people in this country who are competing for jobs and other benefits," counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said ... She said that the president’s decision should be seen as part of an "entire economic and domestic agenda" that includes an end to sanctuary cities, increased border security and constructing a wall along the southern border.

“He says we have to keep people and poison out of our communities. People who are coming here illegally and competing for those jobs,” Conway said.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he was "less concerned about the economic impact" of ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, because "we’ll make sure that we have plenty of workers in this economy. We want to put more people back to work" ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-surrogates-say-ending-daca-could-be-good-for-us-workers/2017/09/03/b61b2176-90cc-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.c54ddab2c653

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