Obama’s Deplorable DACA Decision

9/6/17
 
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By Karl Rove,

from The Wall Street Journal,
9/6/17:

His attack on Trump needlessly inflames the situation, making it worse for Dreamers.

I believe that “Dreamers”—foreign-born men and women, age 15 to 36, brought here illegally when they were children—should be allowed to stay in America, the only country most of them remember. That’s why I find President Obama’s recent attack on President Trump so deplorable.

Mr. Trump announced Tuesday that in six months he would end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that temporarily shelters Dreamers from deportation. Shortly afterward Mr. Obama called the decision “cruel,” “self-defeating” and “contrary to our spirit.”

This needlessly inflamed the situation, making a solution harder to achieve. Besides, Mr. Obama knows that federal courts appeared ready to strike down DACA on the ground that suspending immigration laws for a whole class of people is unconstitutional.

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