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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 09:25 PM Jan 2019

Some DACA protections revamped, for others, safeguards stripped: Details from Trump's border wall

Source: ABC News

When President Donald Trump announced a deal to “compromise” with Democrats in an effort to secure border funding Saturday, he avoided mentioning several major proposed changes including the way the nation handles the temporary protected status of people from countries ravaged by war or disaster and for young immigrants known as "Dreamers."

In his announcement on Saturday, Trump offered three-year extensions to some 700,000 so-called “Dreamers,” children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents who were given a protected status under former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order, and for Temporary Protected Status recipients whose status is currently facing expiration.

While Trump’s bill would extend temporary assurances for those groups, critics of the president's proposal say the proposal undercuts critical protections for vulnerable populations.

"This sham ‘compromise’ would weaken the asylum system, strip vulnerable children of critical safeguards ... and hollow out protections for individuals from countries ravaged by natural disasters or war," ACLU deputy political director Lorella Praeli said in a statement

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/daca-protections-revamped-safeguards-stripped-details-trumps-border/story?id=60543372&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_hero_hed



His whole "compromise" turns out to be a total cruel deceptive sham where the proposal actually takes away protections for asylum seekers and DACA Dreamers as well as harms other temporary protected status recipients.
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