Quincy News: President Trump open to DACA Dreamers relief legislation separate from wall funding

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– News and commentary about elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News.

President Trump open to DACA Dreamers relief legislation separate from wall funding.

White House legislative director Marc Short said the administration will lay out its priorities for a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program in the next couple of weeks.

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Key is an indication that President Trump will not be attaching a funding authorization for building a border wall to any DACA reform legislation.

As has long been expected in the Quincy Quarry News newsroom would happen, it would appear that senior members of the Trump Administration have finally explained to President Trump that voiding DACA would all but assuredly face many as well as most likely often successful legal challenges.

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That and perhaps also reminded him that it is simply wrong to punish innocent children who have duly abided by the DACA rules in the wake of immigration sins committed by their parents when they were minors and thus oblivious of immigration law.

Many will likely be outraged by what looks to be an impending permanent solution that provides some manner of permanent residency status to roughly 800,000 DACA-registered individuals so long as they abide by the rules so imposed upon them as well as otherwise stay out of trouble.

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At the same time, however, one should remember that President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1986 legislation that eventually resulted in amnesty for almost three million people then living in the United States who did not have residency status at a time when the United States had over fifty million fewer – or 20% less – people residing in the country than today.