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Dulcinea

(6,616 posts)
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 05:25 AM Jan 2018

Trump says he's open to pathway to citizenship 'incentive' on DACA

(CNN) President Donald Trump on Wednesday opened the door to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, the first time he's explicitly said he'd accept a pathway to citizenship for them.

"We're going to morph into it. It's going to happen at some point in the future," Trump said of the immigrants eligible for some version of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which Trump has ended but is urging Congress to replace. He said the time frame would be over 10 to 12 years. The President made his comments to a group of reporters who were meeting with White House chief of staff John Kelly at the White House.

Trump called it an "incentive" for the immigrants, who largely have known no other country beside America, to work hard and do a "great job."

"If they do a great job, I think it's a nice thing to have the incentive of, after a period of years, being able to become a citizen," Trump said.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/trump-citizenship/index.html

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Trump says he's open to pathway to citizenship 'incentive' on DACA (Original Post) Dulcinea Jan 2018 OP
Uh huh! atreides1 Jan 2018 #1
Until they can deport them for some made up reasons. Demtexan Jan 2018 #2
Trump gave us his "word?" GaryCnf Jan 2018 #3
His word. Demtexan Jan 2018 #4
He is changing his mind again today.... BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #5

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
4. His word.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 07:10 AM
Jan 2018

Hell of a victory.


Sorry DACA kids.

The goal posts will keep getting moved for you.

Until you are deported.

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
5. He is changing his mind again today....
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:13 PM
Jan 2018

JELL-O!!!!!! This is ridiculous. He is torturing so many needlessly through all of his yes/no BS.

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