DREAMers are the one immigrant group Donald Trump seems cautious about going after

That executive order doesn’t put DACA recipients at risk yet. But Trump is known to be considering an end to the program. Vox received what appears to be a draft of an executive order that would halt the issuing of new DACA grants and the renewing of existing ones, forcing current DACA recipients to lose their protections one by one over the next two years. Trump is ultimately the person who will determine if DACA recipients have reason to worry or not.

So his comments Wednesday don’t mean that he is definitely keeping DACA around. Other comments from Trump himself and members of his administration, and reporting from (among others) Robert Costa of the Washington Post, have all indicated that Trump really is still figuring out what to do with DACA.

His reticence on this issue is striking. As of Wednesday, his executive orders (and one that is expected that will restrict refugees and certain immigrants) already remake whole swaths of US immigration policy. Only when it comes to DACA is he proceeding with any semblance of caution.

When Vox received, and subsequently published, what appear to be six draft executive orders dealing with immigration, I was struck by the difference between the three that were widely known about at the time (the two that came down yesterday dealing with border and interior enforcement, and the widely rumored order restricting refugees and future immigrants) — and the rest.

The three apparent draft orders that Trump hasn’t rushed to sign — the order sunsetting DACA, and two proposals regarding tighter enforcement of work visas and benefits — would all have natural constituencies within the US resisting them. A DACA revocation would get serious pushback from both DREAMers themselves and the politicians in both parties allied with them. The proposals to restrict benefits would affect both legal immigrants currently in the US (who would put themselves at risk of losing their legal status by using benefits like Medicaid) and the US citizen children of unauthorized immigrants (who would no longer qualify their parents for the child tax credit). Meanwhile, changes to work visas would affect not only legal immigrants currently here on those visas but also business interests that align with at least some in the Trump administration.

This week’s orders, on the other hand, don’t have natural political constituencies. They deal with immigrants who haven’t arrived yet, or with “criminal” unauthorized immigrants. (In practice, the label “criminal” is going to be applied to people who wouldn’t meet a commonsense definition of the term, but it’s hard to make that case in the abstract.) The orders will be extremely aggressive in practice, but politically they’re not fights in which the administration faces powerful antagonists.

President Trump and the White House advisers drafting his executive orders may not see much of a distinction between people currently in the US and those not here yet, or between DREAMers and other unauthorized immigrants. But this week’s actions — and inactions — suggest they are at least aware that other people do see that distinction. The question is whether the Trump administration's ideology is strong enough that it's willing to pick the hard fights, too.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politi...-daca-dreamers

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Please just leave us alone.

It'll be a rough 4 years boys!!!

Hang on tight, the shit show is just beginning

If it is just the beginning, I don't want to know what is the ending.

If you guys want some positive energy, go to anti-immigrant websites and you will see how they are furious about Trump not ending DACA. They believe we will get a path to citizenship.

The same article mentions a tweet by Robert Costa, a prominent Washington Post journalist: https://twitter.com/costareports/sta...75371054305280

Costa says that the White House is still considering what to do with DACA. So that means we are not in the safe territory.

If DACA can survive Trump, it can survive anything.

I do not think it was ever implied we were.

My boy Obama really tormented him with that letter. Trump knows that if he goes after us Obama is going to organize a massive march that will attract even more people than the women's march.


It will be the Dreamer's March...

I truly believe he would take us all the way to the Whitehouse. It would not be good for Trump.

barack obama, the man of hope... boy i miss him.