HIRONO. Mr. President, it would have taken moral courage--
something he doesn't have--for President Trump to stand in front of the
American people to say why he was going back on his word to ``deal with
DACA with heart'' and help these ``absolutely incredible kids'' in a
way that is going to ``make people happy and proud.''
Instead, he sent out his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, long a foe
of immigration reform, to break the bad news to 800,000 young people
and their families that he was rescinding DACA. This was bloodless,
heartless, and completely unjustifiable. In his remarks, the Attorney
General composed an elaborate fiction about DACA, a program that has
transformed the lives of 800,000 young people, and the Attorney General
actually thought the American people would fall for his made-up
remarks. He not only claimed that DACA was unconstitutional but also
falsely claimed that Dreamers were taking hundreds of thousands of jobs
away from Americans and that they deserved to be punished. The fact is, a strong majority of the American people are siding with
the DACA participants. The American people aren't threatened by these
inspiring young people. They are not criminals.
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