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The Daily

Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When President Trump announced that he would end the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, he gave Congress six months to make it law. Otherwise, many undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children could be deported. As the clock counts down, why is the president making the program his problem once again? Guest: Michael D. Shear, a White House correspondent for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times on Michael Barbarale, this is the day.

0:09.2

Today, when President Trump announced that he would end DACA,

0:13.8

he made it Congress's problem.

0:16.2

They had six months to pass a bill,

0:18.6

or tens of thousands of undocumented children could be deported.

0:23.5

As the clock counts down,

0:25.5

Why is the president once again making it his problem?

0:29.5

It's Thursday, January 11th.

0:37.5

Okay. Good morning.

0:39.5

I'm here today to announce that the program known as DACA

0:43.5

that was effectuated under the Obama administration

0:47.5

is being rescinded.

0:49.5

The DACA program was implemented in 2000.

0:52.5

Right. So it was September 5th, I believe, of last year,

0:55.5

almost two-thirds of the way through the president's first year in office.

0:58.5

And Attorney General Jeff Sessions went out at the Justice Department

1:02.5

and made this dramatic announcement.

1:04.5

To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest,

1:09.5

we cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. It's just that simple.

1:14.5

The administration was rescinding a program called DACA,

1:18.5

the deferred action for childhood arrivals.

1:21.5

Michael Schier covers the White House for the Times.

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