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Biden’s proposal to give access to health insurance is irrelevant. The real question is: What do we do with the millions of undocumented immigrants who we keep in the shadows?
The Obama-era program for undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children has been contested for years.
“We made a mistake—it took too long to get it right,” Biden said in the last debate, pledging to “immediately” put DACA recipients on a path to citizenship.
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What the program deferred is deportation—but not indefinitely. The whole thing is half con job, half ticking time bomb.
“Trump almost brought the ship down,” a former Biden aide said. “But the Biden administration’s entire legacy can’t just be charting a course that wouldn’t have hit the iceberg.”
The Tuesday memorandum comes in response to a June Supreme Court case that said the Trump administration couldn’t rescind the DACA program.
The White House has reportedly discussed ideas in a recent article by John Yoo, the lawyer who defended the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding.
Trump’s announcement comes just one day after the Supreme Court ruled that his previous efforts to repeal the order could not be upheld.
Several top Democrats, including senior Biden campaign advisors, detailed their strategy use SCOTUS decision to mend the rift between Biden and the Latino community.
Another signature Trump initiative is rejected by the Court because the administration bungled its implementation.
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