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🗓️ 8 September 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
0:06.4 | Brooke Gladstone is out this week. |
0:08.6 | I'm Bob Garfield. |
0:10.3 | On Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered on a long-standing campaign promise, |
0:15.1 | an achievement of such grave importance and personal significance that he let someone else announce it. |
0:22.2 | The program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded. |
0:29.8 | That was Attorney General Jeff Sessions breaking the news about the generally popular |
0:34.2 | deferred action for childhood arrivals program, DACA, that for five years has offered |
0:39.8 | temporary protection from deportation for undocumented immigrants brought here as children. |
0:45.9 | The onus now falls on Congress to reinstate the program's benefits in the next six months, |
0:51.9 | lest some 800,000 dreamers lose their work permits and are deported |
0:57.3 | from the country they grew up in. Slate writer and legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern has examined |
1:03.4 | the administration's argument for killing DACA. Mark, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me on. |
1:10.0 | This was from Attorney General Sessions announcement on Tuesday. |
1:13.8 | The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, |
1:17.1 | among other things, contributed to a surge of miners at the southern border |
1:22.0 | that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences. |
1:26.0 | It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing |
1:30.5 | those same illegal aliens to take those jobs. |
1:33.5 | Let's start with the claim that DACA contributed to a surge of unaccompanied minors across the southern |
1:39.6 | border. Not true? Not true at all. And we know this for a few reasons. |
1:44.9 | The first is that there is a surge in unaccompanied miners coming to the southern border. |
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