Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered some bad news for DACA supporters – there will be no fix this year.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was implemented via executive order under President Obama in 2012, allowing certain people, known as Dreamers, who came to the U.S. illegally as children to be protected from immediate deportation.
President Trump ended the program in September, but gave Congress the opportunity to fix it by adding a 6-month delay. He essentially put them on the clock.
Congress, get ready to do your job – DACA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2017
Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can’t, I will revisit this issue!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2017
McConnell has said fixing the program isn’t critical at this juncture, and it isn’t about to happen this year.
“No, we’ll not be doing DACA this week,” McConnell told Fox News. “That’s a matter to be discussed next year. The president has given us until March to address that issue. We have plenty of time to do that.”
Mitch McConnell to @BretBaier on prospect of government shutdown: ‘Not gonna happen. Neither side wants to do that…We’ll not be doing DACA this week. That’s a matter to be discussed next year.’
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 19, 2017
That’s certainly going to be a disappointment to these leftist kooks who took a day off from work (if they do that sort of thing) to play dead in McConnell’s office a couple of weeks ago.
Group of DREAMers and supporters hold a “die in” inside Sen. McConnell’s office demanding legislative fix for DACA recipients before the end of the year. pic.twitter.com/lxU04p7Woj
— Adolfo Flores (@aflores) December 5, 2017
How long before they do their clever little rhyming chants outside of his office in protest, now that he’s taken away their most anticipated gift of the Christmas season – amnesty?
It isn’t just the Republicans playing the role of Grinch for DREAMers. This will be heartbreaking for the left …
“Senator Schumer (Democrat) and I have discussed it, and there’s no way we’ll be doing DACA this week,” McConnell said.
Barack Obama implemented DACA illegally in McConnell’s view.
“President Obama wrongly believed he had the authority to re-write our immigration law,” he said when Trump ended the program, adding the former President’s assumptions were a “fundamental mistake.”
Trump wants Congress to come up with a bipartisan solution. It won’t be happening until next year.
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