Trump tells DACA recipients not to worry. They know better than to believe him.

[babylonsister]

Trump tells DACA recipients not to worry. They know better than to believe him.
By Dara [e-mail] Jan 28, 2018, 11:20am EST


On Wednesday, during an impromptu press conference at the White House, President Donald Trump had nothing but love and comfort for the 690,000 young unauthorized immigrants affected by the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“Tell them not to worry,” he said of the DACA recipients whose protections will expire (or have already expired) because of his decision last September to wind down the Obama-era program.

If Congress can’t make a deal by March 5 — the deadline Trump had given lawmakers to create a permanent replacement for the protections his administration was rescinding — he suggested he might simply extend that deadline: “I might do that. I might do that.”

But on Thursday, on a call with House Republicans to unveil the White House’s proposed immigration framework, the message from administration officials was much darker.

“They warned that if no deal is reached, DACA recipients will face deportation when the program fully expires on March 5,” the New York Times reported. “One senior official said the young immigrants would not be targeted, but are ‘illegal immigrants’ who would be processed for deportation if they came into contact with immigration officers.”

The warning was an apparent attempt to pressure members of Congress into accepting an immigration deal that they might not otherwise be terribly excited about. But it was also the truth.

As is so often the case with this White House the president, when he told DACA recipients “not to worry,” wasn’t speaking for his administration. Even the warning from administration officials understated the threat facing DACA recipients: it’s real, and for many of them, it is now.

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https://www.vox.com/2018/1/28/16932234/trump-daca-deport-dreamers

[thegoose]

1. Pledges mean nothing and...

Deadlines mean nothing. The only thing Dumpster and his hideous crime family care about is "What's in it for me?" And that shit changes all the time, depending on who they can grift the most.