re: Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise

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What an utterly miserable human being....

You're still desperate.

Last December Trump said he was going to allow illegal immigrants who were brought here as young children who are "illegal" through no fault of their own and who have not committed crimes to stay.

Keep melting, snowflake.

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Did he or did he not renege on his campaign promise?

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did you hold Obama to the same fire when he reversed course on gay marriage?

Unless they have committed crimes or are members of gangs, then they will have to leave. I don't have a problem with this, he is a compassionate, caring person.

Is that an opinion piece? It reads like an opinion piece, but I don't see "opinion" anywhere on it.

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The decision is a reversal from Mr. Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric during the campaign and is likely to disappoint some of the president’s most ardent supporters, who view program started by former President Barack Obama as an illegal grant of amnesty.

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Trump never had any "anti-immigrant" rhetoric. He had anti-illegal immigration rhetoric. These are not the same, and phrasing this sentence as if they are makes the author of this piece look like a hack.

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During the campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly agreed with that sentiment. At one rally last summer, Mr. Trump vowed to “immediately terminate” the DACA program, saying that Mr. Obama had “defied federal law and the Constitution.”

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I read that quote as not continuing the program. It seems like this author is twisting words to form a conclusion. Allowing the people already in the program to continue in the program seems like the right thing to do. I view "continuing the program" as allowing more to enter it. Are we allowing more people to enter the DACA program?

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But once in office, Mr. Trump faced a new reality: the political risks of targeting for deportation a group of people who are viewed sympathetically by many Americans.

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I have sympathy for them, but that has no bearing on whether or not I think we should be the dumping ground for illegal immigrant children.

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In some cases, the immigrants did not know they were in the country illegally. Many attended American schools from the time they were in kindergarten.

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Giving government benefits to illegal immigrants is definitely a problem. This author almost steps into a good point, but falls short.

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Asked repeatedly about his intentions for the program since he took office, the president has hinted that he would not try to deport the Dreamers. But immigration activists had remained worried that the administration might still eliminate the program.

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Translation: this was a shock to no one, but I'll act like it is anyway because I thought Trump was lying.

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The decision to continue the DACA program, which impacts about 800,000 people in the United States, came as the administration formally ended Mr. Obama’s attempt to expand it to also cover the parents of the Dreamers. In 2015, Mr. Obama proposed an expansion of the program, called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, which could have shielded as many as five million people from deportation and provided work permits to them as well. That program was never implemented because a Texas court blocked it at the request of a coalition of 26 state attorneys general. The Supreme Court deadlocked, 4-4, on a challenge to that ruling, but the decision by the Trump administration officially ends the litigation.

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Is this what they call "burying the lead?" Trump completely ends the legal fight over a program that would have allowed "as many as five million people" to stay in the U.S. illegally, and you're dancing because he didn't remove a program "which impacts about 800,000?" By my math, that's a reduction in loopholes for illegal immigrants of 86%. Sure, I'd prefer 100%, but I see this as a huge step in the right direction, and I can't imagine why anyone would be pissed off about it as you obviously seem to think we should be.

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did you hold Obama to the same fire when he reversed course on gay marriage?

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I did not resort to "whataboutisms" and I did not try to suggest that he was anti gay marriage all along....as many are in this thread.

Hillary still won't be President. You lose.....

I believe Trump was on the record that he was flexible on the Dreamer issue...I agree with this decision and its the right thing to do.

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I bet Bannon is so fricking pissed right now

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i think decisions like this and supporting keeping the regs low on natural gas exports to Europe (which will hurt, possibly destroy Russia economically) are painting a picture that Trump is not nearly as beholden to his alleged masters as many would like to promote