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Violating immigrant childs' rights: Trump puts an end for American Dream

9/9/17

The most consequential decision President Donald Trump made on immigration in his first year in office wasn’t about the wall, or who’s going to pay for it, or anything else he talked about incessantly on the campaign trail. It was his decision to announce, on September 5, that his administration would be winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — a program he didn’t mention outright, that many people didn’t know about and even fewer understood.
Donald Trump will thrust the fate of nearly 800,000 young undocumented migrants into uncertainty on Tuesday by terminating the Obama-era program that protects the so-called Dreamers from deportation.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, known as DACA, was introduced by Mr Obama in 2012. It allowed people who arrived illegally in the US when they were under 16, and have no criminal record, to legally study and work. Their deferral from deportation was renewed every two years.
The Daca will be phased out by 5 March 2018, leaving Congress with six months to enact new protections for Dreamers through legislation. On Tuesday night, Trump suggestedthat if Congress failed to “legalize Daca” he would “revisit” the program.
New applications will no longer be accepted, while those currently in the program will all lose their status by March 2020, with the first permits expiring in March 2018 – unless Congress passes legislation allowing the young immigrants to stay.
There are about 800,000 Daca recipients living in the US, who qualified by having been under the age of 31 as of 15 June 2012. Those applying were vetted for any criminal history or threat to national security and had to be students or have completed school or military service. Their status must be renewed every two years.
Sessions repeatedly referred to the group of young, undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens” while declaring: “We are people of compassion. But there’s nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws.”
The administration also declared that new applications for Daca dated after 5 September will not be considered, shutting down access to the program for those who are not already beneficiaries.
Trump’s decision was swiftly condemned by immigration advocates, business leaders and Democrats. 

Former President Barack Obama sharply criticized the Trump administration's decision to end the DACA program that protects young undocumented migrants from deportation, slamming the White House's move as a "cruel," "self-defeating" and legally unnecessary political decision.
"Ultimately, this is about basic decency. This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers out of America, or whether we treat them the way we’d want our own kids to be treated."
Many supporters of Daca pointed to the contributions of Dreamers – named after failed legislation in Congress – and noted the program already denied access to anyone who was convicted of a felony or deemed a threat to national security or public safety.
“This is a sad day for our country,” Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said. “The decision to end Daca is not just wrong. It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it.”
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi accused Trump of committing “a deeply shameful act of political cowardice and a despicable assault on innocent young people in communities across America. The president’s cruel and heartless decision to start deporting Dreamers in six months demands an immediate response from the Republican Congress.”
Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said: “It takes someone with a dark heart to do something as cruel and pointless as this.”
In an attempt to force a decision, 10 state attorney generals, led by Ken Paxton of Texas, imposed an arbitrary deadline of 5 September on which they threatened to take the administration to court. One of those attorney generals, Tennessee’s Herbert Slatery, backed away from the threat last week.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has also pledged to defend DACA in court, accused Trump of "manufacturing a crisis."
"Today is a cruel day for dreamers, our families and all Americans," said Lorella Praeli, the ACLU's director of immigration policy and campaigns. 
"There is no humane way to end DACA before having a permanent legislative fix in place. President Trump just threw the lives and futures of 800,000 dreamers and their families, including my own, into fearful disarray."
A leading campaign group has accused Donald Trump of taking away “civil and human rights” and said would be guilty of child abuse as the President appeared set to terminate an immigration programme that has allowed up to 800,000 undocumented young people stay in the US.
In a series of tweets, the Anne Frank Centre for Mutual Respect, a group that campaigns for the protection of human rights, said Mr Trump was set to make a decision that would become notorious.
“Happy Labour Day - and remember that America works successfully because of the 800,000 immigrants under DACA who are taking no one else’s jobs,” it said.
“Generations from now, children will read about a President who took away civil and human rights.” ./.
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Red Star 9/9/17 21:46

Now we know that there are childs who have no country in America but denied to be protected by the U.S. which always claims of symbol of human rights and democracy.

yobro yobro 9/9/17 21:48

It affects American's jobs, their wages, essential public institutions, and the allocation of scarce public resources, and American are more selfish than we thought.

For A Peace World 9/9/17 21:50

Stop dream about America! It is terrible nation for disadvantaged people.

John Smith 9/9/17 21:57

Hundreds of Dreamers and activists also marched on Trump Tower in New York, stopping traffic along Fifth Avenue. The activists crowded the sidewalks and were corralled by metal barriers that police set up at the last minute to keep order.

Socialist Society 9/9/17 21:58

Technology companies and executives of other industries criticized the Trump administration for its plan to undo protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and called on Congress to help them.

Red Star 9/9/17 22:00

God blesses immigrants! No mercy in the United States.

Gentle Moon 9/9/17 22:03

Eliminating daca is one of the more readily attainable of Trump’s anti-immigrant pledges.

Vietnam Love 9/9/17 22:06

Now the U.S. can not cry out for Amrican values of democracy and human rights anymore. They simply do not deserve!

LawrenceSamuels 9/9/17 22:09

I agree. America should keep their mouth shut in criticing other countries about human rights.

Me Too! 9/9/17 22:11

“You just feel like you are empty,” said a sobbing Paola Martinez, 23, who came to the U.S. from Colombia and recently graduated with a civil engineering degree from Florida International University

Gentle Moon 9/9/17 22:14

No dream, no hope, no future for anyone. America first!

Voice of people 9/9/17 22:17

It's time to awake. Those anti-Vietnam elements in America would have not anyone to lean on, they should stop praise the U.S. as a heaven now.

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