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September 1, 2017

White House Denies Reports President Trump Has Decided to Cancel DACA
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Back in the United States, President Trump is expected to decide the
fate of the immigration policy known as DACA as early as today,
threatening to overturn the Obama-era program that protects nearly
800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as
children. Fox News, Reuters and Mc Clatchy all reported Thursday that
Trump will end DACA, citing an unnamed senior administration official
who said the U.S. will let DACA recipients remain in the U.S. for up to
two years until their work permits expire. But at the White House, Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted the president has not yet come
to a decision. Immigrant rights groups and their allies have pledged
mass mobilizations in response to any move to cancel DACA. Organizers of
the Women's March on Washington tweeted Thursday, "Dear @real Donald
Trump, If you end DACA, we will make your life impossible. Signed, The 5
million who marched on January 21st. #Defend DACA" Trump's imminent
decision comes a week after he pardoned anti-immigrant Arizona Sheriff
Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of contempt of court for defying a court
order to stop his deputies from racial profiling. Trump's third wife,
first lady Melania Trump, is an immigrant who in 1996 was paid for 10
modeling jobs before she was legally authorized to work in the
U.S.-that's according to the Associated Press.


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