DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said he doesn’t agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to end the DACA program and blasted the Catholic Church’s support for undocumented immigrants because ‘they need illegal aliens to fill the churches.’…
Bannon told Rose that he disagreed with Trump’s decision this week to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as minors. But he also expressed empathy for the president, who said he struggled with what to do about the so-called Dreamers who enrolled in DACA and whom Trump had pledged to treat with ‘great heart.’…
Among those who have voiced their opposition to Trump’s DACA decision is New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who said on Sirius XM radio this week that Trump’s decision had turned Dreamers into ‘political hockey pucks’ and that ending the program ‘is certainly not Christian, and I would contend it’s not American.’
Bannon, who is Catholic, joined Trump’s presidential campaign in August 2016, from Breitbart, an online media outlet that Bannon has characterized as ‘the platform for the alt-right.’ He has often been called a major influence on the president’s ‘America First’ policies and has been a lightning rod for critics of the Trump administration.”
-Louis Nelson, “Bannon breaks with Trump on DACA: Conservatives ‘are not happy with this’,” Politico, Sept. 7, 2017 08:18am