President Donald Trump said Friday that Dreamers, a term used for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, should “rest easy” about his presidency because his administration is “not after the Dreamers, we are after the criminals.”
“That is our policy,” Trump told The Associated Press in an interview.
Trump campaigned for the presidency as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration, pledging to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama administration policy program that grants some young undocumented immigrants protection from deportation. Trump’s rhetoric on the issue often drew criticism and alarmed immigration activists during his run for the presidency — starting from his campaign launch speech, when he referred to some Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists.”
Since the election, Trump has softened his rhetoric on DACA recipients a bit, but his administration is nonetheless facing a lawsuit from a 23-year-old Dreamer who was recently deported to Mexico despite having been granted protected status under the program through 2018.
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Not what he said during the campaign.
Another lie.
Didn’t you hear? He’s just trying to “trick” them by keeping them off guard so that they don’t see it coming. He’s a genius don’t you know.
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