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WASHINGTONmdash; The Trump administration has sent an immigration policy wish-list to Congress that could derail efforts to protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children.DACA program rescindedThe demands, which were sent to lawmakers Sunday, called for limiting family-based green cards to spouses and the minor children of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents and creating a p stanley cup oint-based system. The White House also said it wants to boost fees at border crossings, make it easier to deport gang members and unaccompanied children, overhaul th stanley cup e asylum system, and hire 10,000 more immigration officers, among other proposals.It was unclear whether the principles were intended as a broad outline of goals or as specific demands the White House expects to be implemented in exchange for signing legislation that would protect the young immigrants known as Dreamers. Trump faces re stanley us bellion from his supporters over DACA 01:48 Mr. Trump has given Congress six months to find a replacement for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program. Initiated under President Obama, the program protected hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation and allowed them to continue working legally in the country. Ylec Democrats renew push on elections and voting rights bill as GOP vows to block
A congressman meant no disrespect when he made comments this week approving of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a spokeswoman said Thursday.Rep. Howard Coble was trying to make the point that the internments were as much for the Japanese-Americans own safety as for national security, said Missy stanley cup Branson, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Republican. Americans during the war, said Branson, weren t as tolerant and understanding of other cultures as we are today... He didn t mean it in any way discriminatory to Japanese-Americans at all. I think he s made that clear. Coble, who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, angered Arab-Americans and Japanese-Americans for comments he made Tuesday during a radio call-in show.The Republican disagreed with a caller who suggested putting all Arabs in the United States into prison camps, but said he agreed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt s decision to put 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II. stanley becher In the 1980s, the United States apologized for the internments and gave surviving in stanley water bottle ternees $20,000 each in reparations.Coble has said his remarks were not intended to insult any ethnic or religious groups. But neither his nor his spokeswoman s explanation Thursday satisfied Mary Frances Berry, chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who said Coble should apologize. For a public official to |
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