2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
A meeting that President Donald Trump held on Tuesday to discuss the future of DREAMers could mean good news, not only for those who are taking part in the DACA program (mandate for Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).), if not for millions of undocumented immigrants.
This was stated by the 72-year-old president, who, meeting with legislators from both parties, affirmed that he was prepared to "bear the consequences" of comprehensive immigration reform.
According to The New York Times, Trump has privately expressed to his advisers and lawmakers his desire to create an immigration law that helps the nearly 11 million undocumented people living in the country. "If they want me to go one step further, I will bear the consequences," said the president in the words of Republican Senator for South Carolina Lindsey Graham that the White House was getting closer to the idea of promoting immigration reform that went further. of the DACA.
The details of the reform and its consequences are far from known, but they are already generating enormous discussion in the media.
President Trump this morning at the White House
The main purpose of the meeting held at the White House with Republican and Democrat legislators was to discuss the future of the so-called DREAMers, that is, young people under DACA, who arrived in this country undocumented as minors, and who thanks to the program launched by the previous administration of Barack Obama they are not in danger of being deported.
As part of his policy of tightening immigration laws, Trump expired DACA in September and asked Congress to find a solution to the immigration status of the nearly 800,000 young dreamers. In the current negotiations, the president has offered the possibility of legalizing them in exchange for the approval of a budget item to build the famous wall on the border with Mexico.
"You have created an opportunity here, Mr. President," Graham noted at the end of the meeting, referring to comprehensive immigration reform. "And now you need to close the deal."
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