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Just a few hours after President Trump sent out Attorney General Jeff Sessions to announce the rescindment of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), Trump signaled on Twitter that if Congress couldn’t codify DACA in 6 months, he would “revisit this issue.” But despite what seemed like the President looking for a way to handle the issue with “heart,” like he said he wanted too, CBS Evening News continued to decry Trump’s decision while touting his detractors on Wednesday.
To kick off the DACA segment, Anchor Anthony Mason he praised the fact that 15 states had signed on to sue the Trump administration over the future of the program. “Today, 15 states and Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit challenging the President's action. They want to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation,” he said.
There was no mention of the fact that the lawsuit would be on shaky legal ground, seeing as DACA was created through an executive order and not a law passed by Congress, which was something the Trump administration was asking for.
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