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Nolan Rappaport (The Hill): Removal of DACA recipients has begun: It didn’t take a crystal ball to see DACA would not end well

By immigrationprof

There have been reports that the Trump administration is beginning to target DACA recipients for removal.  Nolan Rappaport on The Hill (“Removal of DACA recipients has begun: It didn’t take a crystal ball to see DACA would not end well”)  offers a “I told you so” response to the reports:

“In June 2012, former President Barack Obama announced the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provided temporary lawful status for a two-year period, subject to renewal, for certain undocumented immigrants who had come to the United States before reaching the age of 16.

This was supposed to be a compassionate act, but I foresaw unintended consequences if a person with strong immigration enforcement policies were to become the president before the passage of a bill to provide permanent resident status for the participants.” (emphasis added).

KJ