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For those actions, Trump appears to have been granted latitude on DACA ― a far trickier element of immigration law with far more delicate political ramifications. Conservative talk radio, for example, has been notably kind to Trump on the matter, even after spending years fomenting much of the anti-immigration reform sentiment that animated the Republican Party. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh went so far as to say last week that he was open to some type of relief for Dreamers, as long as Trump deports others, increases border measures and excludes adult criminals and potential criminals from the same type of “amnesty.”
“A lot of people think that Trump’s caving, because if you allow the Dreamers to stay, we’re talking 750,000 Dreamers, kids, who each have two parents who could come in,” Limbaugh said. “Look, this is a no-win. Nobody’s going to win anything by deporting a bunch of kids that we let in ― whoever did, Obama, whatever. ... We’ll have to see how it all manifests itself. Look, there’s a caveat here: In order for the Dreamer thing to be acceptable, the rest of this stuff has to be by the book.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday about why Trump hasn’t eliminated DACA yet.
To DACA critic Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, it seems like the administration is in a “fetal crouch, hoping that the issue goes away.”
“The fact that they’re doing nothing on DACA ― they’re not even stopping new grants ― suggests to me that there’s differing opinions in the White House and absolutely no idea of how to proceed,” Krikorian said. “I had a grad school adviser who used the football analogy ‘When in doubt, fall on the ball.’ That seems to be what they’re doing.”
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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58...b0780bac2c585f
Rush Limbaugh giving us a pass? Wow