'Strong and very soon': Trump has announced a change in US immigration policy
U.S. President Donald Trump has long sought to redefine the U.S. immigration system to base immigration on merit rather than family ties. Immigration remains one of the defining accents of Trump's election campaign, aimed at re-election in November this year, writes NDTV.
US President Donald Trump has reiterated his promise to soon sign a “very strong” merit-based immigration act that will also take into account the interests of immigrants brought into the country illegally as children (DACA, or “Dreamers”).
“We are going to sign the immigration act very soon. It will be merit-based, it will be very strong,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on Tuesday, July 14.
“We're going to work on DACA because we want to make people happy, and I'll tell you that even conservative Republicans want something to happen about DACA,” he said.
The DACA program provides work permits and other protections for people who were imported into the United States as children of undocumented parents. This affects approximately 700 young people, many of whom are of Indian or South Asian descent.
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President Trump tried to cancel the Obama era program, but the Supreme Court last month stated that the program will remain valid.
Trump said the Democrats had a chance to do something with the DACA, and they always refused it.
“They always rejected it. They used it as politics. I use it to get things done. We will sign a very powerful immigration act. It will be great, it will be merit based. The country has been trying to get it for 25 or 30 years,” he said.
“Everything will be strict at the border, but if you come legally, you will be able to enter the United States legally, and that is very important. We will take care of DACA people in a very Republican way,” the president said.
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