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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump was supposed to finally make an announcement regarding his long awaited decision on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). It’s a touchy issue for most because it deals with the children of illegal immigrants, the job market, the economy, and questionable legality. But in an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. claimed the real reason DACA had its opponents was that of race.
In a segment about the future of DACA, MTP Moderator Chuck Todd wondered if Trump would announce that he planned to rescind the executive order signed by President Obama and tell Congress it was up to them to make it law.
Glaude didn’t buy into Todd’s idea, suggesting it was too thoughtful of a political strategy for the President to utilize. According to the professor, Trump was only playing to his base who only cared about DACA because they were white. “We can think about the policy issues but there is this kind of cultural undertow,” he asserted.
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. melanie.hunter
