“As soon as the president's ready to announce the result of our policy process, he’ll do so,” homeland security adviser Tom Bossert told reporters on Thursday.
The Trump administration is still reviewing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants some protections to young undocumented immigrants, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said Thursday.
“As soon as the president's ready to announce the result of our policy process, he’ll do so,” Bossert, who said he has been consulted on the president’s decision on whether or not to rescind the policy, told reporters.
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The Obama administration program, known as DACA, allows some undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to work and live legally. Some 800,000 people are protected under the program, which former President Barack Obama signed as an executive order in 2012.
Trump had campaigned against DACA and promised to end it if elected, but he has since waffled over whether to follow through on the pledge.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Thursday that the president still stands by his earlier statement that he would treat the young undocumented immigrants, often called Dreamers, with "heart." But she reiterated that he had not yet made a decision about the program, despite news reports that said he'd made up his mind.
"No offense to your colleague from Fox News, but I think I'm a little bit better informed than they are in terms of when the White House has made a decision," Sanders told reporters. "And as I just said a moment ago, it has not been finalized, and when it is, we will certainly let you know."
Immigration rights activists and many lawmakers have called on Trump to extend the program, worried about the fate of its current enrollees. But he faces pressure from his immigration-restrictionist base to scrap the program, and several conservative states have threatened to sue the administration if the president does not rescind it by Sept. 5.
Bossert told reporters Thursday that the lawsuit threat “won’t affect the policy decision, but it will affect the timing of it.”
Trump administration officials had considered reaching out to the 10 state attorneys general threatening to sue over DACA to see if they’d be open to pushing back the Sept. 5 deadline.
But a spokeswoman for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading the legal effort against DACA, suggested Thursday the state law enforcement officials wouldn’t budge. “The court-ordered deadline in DACA was set several weeks ago, and we are completely prepared to comply with it on September 5,” Paxton spokeswoman Kayleigh Lovvorn said in an email.
Officials briefed on the administration's internal deliberations told POLITICO earlier this week that White House officials are debating phasing out DACA but allowing people who have already been granted two-year work permits through the program to continue using them until they expire.
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