The Obama administration policy protects nearly 800,000 young men and women often called “Dreamers” from deportation and allows them to work legally. The decision to give Congress half a year to come up with an alternative represents a compromise after Republicans and business leaders asked Trump to keep the program. “Dreamers” are a fraction of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, most of them Hispanic. House of Representatives speaker Paul Ryan urged Trump on Friday not to rescind the program and was joined by senator Orrin Hatch, also a Republican. Some ‘heart’.”Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) After teasing #Dreamers for months with talk of his "great heart," @POTUS slams door on them.

Source: The Guardian September 04, 2017 01:44 UTC