DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s move to end a program that protects young, undocumented immigrants sets up a six-month scramble among Republicans who want to save the protections, others who want to kill them and still others who hope to use the program’s future as a bargaining chip for other goals such as funding for the proposed border wall with Mexico.
With an announcement scheduled for Tuesday [9-5-17], Mr. Trump is expected to delay the program’s termination for as long as six months, two White House officials said, to give Congress time to approve legislation that would achieve the same goals…
Administration officials cautioned that Mr. Trump’s decision wasn’t yet final. It was unclear how forceful Mr. Trump would be in calling for legislation or what parameters he might set.
Mr. Trump’s timing was tied to a threat by a coalition of 10 states to sue the administration over the program. They set a deadline of Tuesday. Immigration hard-liners argue that the program, created by former President Barack Obama, represented an unconstitutional overreach of executive authority.
The program, created in 2012, offers young people brought to the U.S. as children a reprieve from deportation and work permits. Since then, nearly 800,000 people have enrolled.”
-Laura Meckler and Michael C. Bender, “Battle Shapes Up in Congress Over Fate of Immigration Program,” The Wall Street Journal online, Sept. 5, 2017 08:46am