The Washington Examiner is reporting that after meeting with the Trump administration Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-Va.) told reporters that Pres. Trump would “absolutely not” end Pres. Obama’s DACA amnesty. Ending the program was a campaign promise of Pres. Trump's, and his campaign website pledged to end the executive amnesty "immediately".
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grants temporary amnesty and work permits to illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. as children. According to the USCIS they are still accepting and processing DACA requests and over 700,000 DACA applications have been approved since June 2016.
“He’s really starting to anger his base with this,” Roy Beck, President of NumbersUSA, told The New York Times. “I’ve got people really angry and talking about ‘He’s double crossed us, he’s deceived us.’ You could say that the troops are restless, and I can’t blame them.”
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