“Since launching his presidential run a year and a half ago with a speech describing Mexican immigrants as rapists, Trump has made a bevy of promises about how he’d overhaul U.S. immigration policy,” Bloomberg reports.
“Many of those pledges—such as tripling the ranks of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and building a wall along the southern U.S. border—require cooperation from Congress, which some of his Republican allies will be eager to provide. But what worries pro-immigrant activists the most are the things President Trump can do by himself.”
“That starts with cancellation of President Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has provided work permits and deportation relief to hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants, some of whom have used their newfound legal status to buy homes or start businesses.”
