Trump Reportedly Asked Aides For 'Way Out' Of Campaign Pledge To End DACA

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11. nytimes: On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path

I think the story makes trump the victim of his own doing--yet also gives the feeling we are to feel sorry for trump!--being president is hard work!!




On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path

Sept 4, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/us/president-trump-daca-dreamers.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman and Julie Hirschfeld Davis









President Trump during a group prayer in the Oval Office on Sunday. He has been wrestling with what to do about the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program. Tom Brenner/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — For months, an anxious and uncertain President Trump was caught between opposing camps in the West Wing prodding him to either scrap or salvage an Obama-era program allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors to remain in the United States.

Last week, with a key court deadline looming for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, Mr. Trump, exasperated, asked his aides for “a way out” of a dilemma he created by promising to roll back the program as a presidential candidate, according to two people familiar with the exchange.

Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, John F. Kelly, who had wrestled with crafting a compromise in his previous job as the president’s homeland security secretary, began consulting with Republican lawmakers and staff members for a quick fix, according to three officials familiar with the situation. He finally arrived at an inelegant solution to an intractable problem: Delaying a decision on the final fate of about 800,000 “Dreamers” covered by President Barack Obama’s executive action for six months, and putting it on Congress to come up with a legislative solution to the problem.
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The delay would buy the president some much-needed breathing room. But it is certain to displease nearly everyone else, especially as there is no guarantee that a squabbling Congress, which failed to address immigration under President Obama, will come up with a long-term solution.

“It’s not clear what delaying this for six months means,” said Mark Krikorian, an immigration hard-liner who runs the Center for Immigration Studies who has supported the president’s actions to curtail immigration..................................