Republicans worry about eroding Hispanic support after Trump’s DACA rollback

Published September 6, 2017 4:01am ET



The Republican Party’s brittle relationship with Hispanic voters absorbed another blow Tuesday when President Trump rolled back a constitutionally questionable program granting residency to illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Scrapping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action implemented by President Barack Obama in 2012 has thrown the future of nearly 1 million young, mostly Hispanic, unauthorized immigrants into limbo.

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