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Dreamers and Deportation in the age of Trump
Donald Trump has promised to rescind President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gives temporary legal status to so-called Dreamers. Trump also cited the Eisenhower era’s Operation Wetback as a model for his deportation plans. Civil rights groups hold up that 1950s approach as an example of ethnic profiling.
By Madeleine Brand • • 53m ListenDonald Trump has promised to rescind President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gives temporary legal status to so-called Dreamers. What will happen to those Dreamers if he fulfills that promise?
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5 storiesWhat happens to Dreamers if Trump rescinds DACA?
President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program gives temporary legal status to so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before age 16 and before June 2007. Almost 750,000 Dreamers have registered with the program. Donald Trump has promised to rescind it.
Read the story11 minAmerica’s last mass deportation was a successful campaign of fear
Donald Trump cited the Eisenhower era’s Operation Wetback as a model for his deportation plans . President Eisenhower deported more than one million undocumented immigrants in 1954. The vast majority of the deportees lived in Texas and California.
Read the story10 minWhat’s the GOP plan for replacing Obamacare?
“Repeal and replace” has been the Republican party’s mantra when it comes to the Affordable Care Act. Republicans will have a chance to make good on that promise since it will control the White House and Congress.
Read the story7 minNational Book Award winner talks race in America
Colson Whitehead took home the prestigious National Book Award for fiction last night. He won it for his novel ‘The Underground Railroad,’ which follows a teenage slave named Cora to a hard-won freedom. She begins on a Georgia plantation, and then escapes via an actual underground railroad.
Read the story13 minSocial media helped Trump win the White House
A good part of the country is still taking stock of how and why Donald Trump won the election. The influence of social media tops the list. Even Trump says Facebook, Twitter and Instragram played key roles in his victory.
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