Month: September 2017

Faith groups overwhelmingly condemn Trump’s decision to phase out DACA

News, religion, religious-left

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that President Donald Trump’s administration would phase-out a program that offers work permits to undocumented immigrants who were bought to the United States as children, he called the move “compassionate.”

Some evangelical groups either supported the president’s decision or mirrored the approach of the National Association of Evangelicals, which did not criticize Trump but released a statement demanding Congress pass legislation...

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‘This is the only country I know’: DREAMers react to Trump’s cynical game

News, politics, Trump administration

The Trump administration’s decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is a cruel and cynical political ploy that puts the lives of nearly 800,000 young people who came to America as children in continued limbo.

Known as DREAMers, these young people have lived the bulk of their lives in the United States, but lack the security of full citizenship and under the constant threat of deportation to a country that is foreign to many of them. That t...

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Here’s the long list of legislative items Congress needs to get to in addition to DACA

congress, News, obamacare

The White House will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with a six-month delay for Congress to act. The Trump administration is phasing out DACA — an Obama-era initiative that conferred deportation protection and work permits for nearly 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants — unless Congress passes a bill by March to protect recipients, often referred to as DREAMers.

President Donald Trump is punting responsibility to Congress. In a statement, ...

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DACA is not unconstitutional

Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, News

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows approximately 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to live and work openly without fear of deportation. The White House also plans to delay the end of DACA for six months.

In a telling sign of how the administration wants to justify this decision, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced DACA’s fate at a new...

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Congress is back! Here are 10 major problems it faces.

News
Republican members of Congress slinked off to their home districts last month having failed to make good on their seven-year-long pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. President Donald Trump spent August vacationing in New Jersey while taking intermittent breaks to -- among other things -- attack Republican senators for a variety of reasons.
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The bleak reason why America is always on the verge of a government shutdown

congress, News, politics

Tell me if you’ve heard this story before.

A bunch of lawmakers return to Washington. They’ve got a tight deadline and an unruly crew of right-wing hardliners to deal with. The Republican leadership wants to go it alone, but understands the party is going to have to deal with Democrats if it wants to keep the government’s lights on. And looming over all of this is the debt ceiling, a time bomb that could take out much of the world economy if it is allowed to go off...

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