DHS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration would support legislation allowing illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to gain lawful permanent status and eventually citizenship, a Department of Homeland Security official said in testimony to Congress on Tuesday [10-3-17].
The Trump administration last month ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which began in 2012 under former President Barack Obama and offered nearly 800,000 young people who came to the United States illegally as children protection from deportation and the right to work legally in the United States.
The administration said it ended DACA because Obama overstepped his constitutional authority by creating the policy unilaterally and without Congressional approval. President Donald Trump called on Congress to enact a law to protect DACA recipients, and last month angered some of his fellow Republicans by negotiating with congressional Democratic leaders on possible legislation…
A DHS spokesman did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether the administration’s stance applies only to individuals who had DACA status, or also applies to those who would have qualified had the policy not been rescinded.”
-Yaganeh Torbati and Richard Cowan, “Trump administration backs citizenship path for ‘Dreamers’: official,” Reuters, Oct. 3, 2017 11:47am