They worry he’s backtracking on a central campaign promise to reverse Barack Obama’s policy.
Donald Trump promised during the campaign that he’d “immediately” kill Barack Obama’s unilateral actions to shield hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Now, just four days into the new administration, immigration hardliners are demanding that the new president follow through. And they’re increasingly frustrated at the shift in tone from top White House officials signaling a more compassionate approach for so-called Dreamers.
Influential groups advocating for more immigration restrictions have already launched a campaign aimed at pressuring Trump to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era directive that allowed Dreamers to obtain work permits and protection from deportation. On Tuesday, NumbersUSA urged its 2 million-plus members, as well as 6 million followers on Facebook, to tweet at Trump urging him to rescind DACA, and even the Trump-friendly news outlet Breitbart ripped the administration for its DACA inaction.
That irritation from Trump’s base is quickly spreading to conservatives on Capitol Hill.
Asked whether he was disappointed Trump hadn’t yet ended DACA, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) barely let a reporter finish the question before he responded: “Yes.”
“It was front and center in his campaign,” Brooks said in an interview Tuesday. “Donald Trump got a lot of votes — probably got the Republican nomination in large part — because he said he was going to be aggressive in defending our borders. One of the low-lying fruits is repealing, by executive order, the amnesty executive orders of Barack Obama, and he hasn’t done it yet.”
For the hard-liners, rescinding the DACA program should be the easiest of Trump’s immigration promises to fulfill: a simple memo ordering federal officials to stop accepting DACA applications that have steadily arrived since Obama first announced the initiative in 2012.
But U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is still taking DACA requests, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday. That means the agency is greenlighting an average of 140 initial applications and 690 renewals, according to the most recent publicly available data.
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He could’ve put s stop to it day one and then stated that he will look into ways to deal with the situation, because it is a very difficult situation either way you go with it. However, to have halted it and taken some time to have hearings on it or get more information to make a serious plan, would’ve been the least thing he should’ve done. I know that some people have been here way too long to just send home, but there needs to be a halt for now and a serious look into plans to deal with them, not just make them all citizens, especially in light of the legal immigrants still stranded in the system.
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He indicated he had softened on this before he was elected. I don’t see why they are upset about it now. They still voted for him.
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