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DACA protests in LA on Labor Day; Trump decision could end support for ‘Dreamers’

Posted by Debbie L. Sklar on September 4, 2017 in Government | 321 Views | Leave a response
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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, January 26, 2016. REUTERS/Scott Morgan

Protests are expected to continue Monday in downtown Los Angeles amid reports President Trump plans to end support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, with a six-month delay to allow Congress to come up with an alternative.

The program, known as DACA and introduced by former President Barack Obama in 2012, allows people who were brought into the United States illegally as children to work and study in the country without fear of being deported.

Trump has taken a hard stance against illegal immigration, but until recently had not given a strong indication of whether he would keep DACA in place.

However, the political news site Politico.com reports the president met with advisers Sunday to discuss how to formally end DACA, which affects an estimated 200,000 Californians.

Protestors were gathering Monday morning at Cesar E. Chavez and Grand avenues for a 10 a.m. march to continue a series of local demonstrations that began last week as word spread about Trump’s pending decision.

On Friday, the president said he would announce a decision “sometime today or over the weekend.”

“We’ll issue it sometime over the weekend, maybe this afternoon,” Trump said.

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White House officials later said the announcement would come Tuesday.

Asked whether DACA recipients — generally known as DREAMers — should be worried, he responded, “We love the DREAMers. We love everybody. … We think the DREAMers are terrific.”

Congressman Ted Lieu of Torrance is one of many elected officials of both parties who have criticized the president’s plans.

“I am outraged by the president’s foolish decision to end DACA,” Lieu said in a Sunday statement. “Our nation can never be great without embracing immigrants. Ending DACA is an unconscionable assault on thousands of young Americans who know no other home than the United States.”

California Sen. Kamala Harris called the decision “heartless.”

Rallying in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, local immigrants, elected officials and labor leaders called on the Trump to maintain the program that has helped an estimated 800,000 people avoid deportation.

“I’m here to say that the labor movement, the union movement stands side by side with our DACA young men and women,” said labor leaders Maria Elena Durazo. “… My message to Donald Trump is: Have a heart, show compassion. Have a backbone and show some courage. And have a brain and show some intelligence. Because you know what? We have all these reasons as to why the DACA program needs to be preserved and protected. He knows what those are.

We don’t want 800,000 people who have been vetted, who have applied, who have given all of their information to the government to now have to go underground,” she said. “That’s what Donald Trump wants? I say no to that.”

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, which organized Friday’s rally, held events every day last week in support of DACA, including a phone bank of people calling the White House in support of the program.

DACA is available to immigrants without criminal records who were brought to the country when they were younger than 16 years old. Work permits issued under DACA must be renewed every two years.

—City News Service

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