Tag: Anguish

Trump's DACA decision triggers anguish, political firestorm. Mindful of the political firestorm whipped up by the decision, the White House insisted that Trump had wrestled with the question of the program, known as DACA, but concluded it was an example of overreaching by his predecessor. But in a statement, Trump insisted that the program, enacted with executive power by Obama after Congress had failed to address the plight of mainly young, undocumented migrants, was illegal. "As President, my highest duty is to defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America," Trump said in the statement. "No one is happy with this outcome -- including the President," one official said, explaining why Sessions was tapped to make the announcement. If not, hundreds of thousands of people could face deportation from the only country that many of them remember to the nations of their birth. "It's a political decision, and a moral question," Obama wrote. This is the only way, given the number of legislative days Congress has scheduled over the next six months, we realistically can expect Congress to complete DACA legislation in time," he said. "It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American Dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it," Zuckerberg wrote. House Speaker Paul Ryan said that though it was well-intentioned, DACA represented an overreach of executive power by Obama.