Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., accused President Trump Sunday of never intending to work with congressional Democrats on a legislative fix to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
“.@realDonaldTrump ‘NO MORE DACA DEAL’?!! You were never doing a DACA deal,” Ellison wrote on Twitter.
“Your actions gave you away: cancelling DACA with no plan, making racist comments about Black/Brown immigrants, ejecting several … bipartisan deals. You didn’t fool anybody,” the Democratic National Committee deputy chair added.
.@realDonaldTrump ‘NO MORE DACA DEAL’?!! You were never doing a DACA deal. Your actions gave you away: cancelling DACA with no plan, making racist comments about Black/Brown immigrants, ejecting several by bipartisan deals. You didn’t fool anybody. https://t.co/65zya1vAvS
— Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) April 1, 2018
Trump urged Republican senators Sunday to change the rules of the upper chamber so they could pass tough new immigration laws as a caravan of thousands of migrant workers make their way through Mexico toward the U.S.
“Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. ‘Caravans’ coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!” Trump tweeted.
Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in September protections granted under the DACA program, which allows some illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as minors to stay and work, would gradually be rolled back over a six-month period unless Congress provided a legislative framework for it to continue.
But since the announcement, attempts to push bipartisan immigration proposals through both houses before the March 5 deadline have failed.
The Supreme Court, however, has prevented DACA being fully rescinded as originally planned.
In February, it declined a Trump administration request to consider a legal challenge of DACA before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, giving the lower court time to examine the ruling.
As such, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California order temporarily blocking the repeal of DACA program remained in effect.
