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🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded. |
0:10.0 | Obviously Jeff Sessions a very hard line voice on immigration. |
0:14.0 | The compassionate thing to do is in the laws, enforce our laws. |
0:20.0 | Congress's job to create legislation, I think that's something we all learned in 8th grade civics. |
0:24.0 | We love the dreamers, we love everybody. Thank you very much. |
0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man whose own aides are worried he doesn't understand what he's doing by rescinding DACA, Donald Trump. |
0:43.0 | I'm Jacob Boyspirg. |
0:45.0 | Trump thinks he has come up with a really clever solution to a political problem. |
0:50.0 | His native space doesn't want any kind of amnesty for undocumented immigrants, even for those brought over involuntarily as children. |
0:58.0 | But most of the country supports the Obama policy of letting the dreamers stay in the country work and pay taxes. |
1:05.0 | So Trump figures he'll let someone else take the heat. |
1:08.0 | He says he has no choice in the matter because of a potential lawsuit that hasn't even been filed. |
1:14.0 | His hands are tied. |
1:16.0 | So he cancels a successful humane program and tells Congress to feel free to do something about it. |
1:23.0 | Here's what Trump is doing. He's putting more than 800,000 of his fellow Americans into a legal purgatory. |
1:30.0 | He's turning them into hostages for whatever concessions he hopes to extract from the Democrats on the border wall and God knows what else. |
1:38.0 | Even for Donald Trump, this is disgusting behavior. |
1:42.0 | The dreamers grew up here and in many cases have no other country they consider home. |
1:47.0 | They didn't jump any line or break any rules. |
1:51.0 | If you have the chance to speak to any of them, I think you'll find they're an unusually patriotic group of Americans. |
1:57.0 | But as their DACA permits expire, they will lose their jobs, their ability to get a driver's license, to live freely. |
2:04.0 | They're facing a future of fear of deportation from their own country. |
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