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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today, the United States Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to expedite a decision on DACA. This keeps the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on life support for a few more months, but also keeps its 690,000 recipients in limbo: Do they stay or do they go? Congress still hasn’t been able to pass a vote on DACA. Vox’s Dara Lind and Matthew Yglesias say that’s because Trump has moved the conversation into unfamiliar territory: from illegal immigration to legal immigration.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

New week, new shows. Can't wait to share them with you because I got some really good sleep

0:05.9

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0:16.8

how you can improve your sleep. Dreamers

0:24.3

On authorized immigrants who came to the US as children, named after the Dream Act, a bipartisan

0:29.6

proposal from 2001 that was never passed.

0:33.9

DACA Deferred action for childhood arrivals. Established by President Barack Obama in 2012

0:40.0

to give people who came to the US as minors the opportunity to stay and work. Almost a

0:45.4

million people enrolled. Remember that one time the government shut down earlier this

0:52.3

year? We have a 700 page bill that no one has read that was printed at midnight. No, not

0:59.3

that time. The other time. The bigger one. The Democrats are shutting down our government

1:05.0

to stand up for people in this country illegally. That big shutdown was over immigration.

1:11.2

What to do about unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children? Here's Jeff

1:16.4

Sessions last September. I'm here today to announce that the program known as DACA that

1:22.7

was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded.

1:27.7

There were vague promises of a permanent solution for DACA, but six months later, crickets.

1:33.6

So Democrats shut the government down. Now, the government's obviously up and running

1:37.8

again, but there's still no permanent DACA plan on the horizon. And a big part of it is

1:43.3

because now we're talking about something else.

1:47.1

The United States citizenship and immigration services has changed its mission statement

1:52.5

to no longer characterize the US as a quote nation of immigrants.

1:57.4

All of a sudden, we're talking about whether immigration is still a fundamental part of

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