Donald Trump’s Cowardice on ‘Dreamers’<br />In a short, disingenuous speech, he said a program set up by President Barack Obama in 2012 — known as DACA, for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — was a lawless policy<br />that “yielded terrible humanitarian consequences” and denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of American citizens.<br />Sessions called DACA “an unconstitutional exercise of authority”<br />and said “failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and terrorism.”<br />False, false, false and false.<br />Instead, he hid in the shadows and sent his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to do the dirty work of telling the country<br />that the administration would no longer shield from deportation 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children.<br />Even the Chamber of Commerce, usually a reliable backer of the Republican legislative agenda,<br />called the decision to end DACA “contrary to fundamental American principles.”<br />The only bad thing that could be said about DACA is that,<br />because it was a presidential memorandum, it was always vulnerable to being undone by a shortsighted administration playing to its base<br />Presidents of both parties have done that for decades,<br />and President Obama did it by focusing on people with criminal records and not on those brought to this country as children.
