Since its introduction,
the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy has provided temporary
relief from deportation as well as work authorization to approximately 800,000
undocumented young people who brought to this country as children, and not only
has the program improved the lives of undocumented young people and their
families, research has consistently shown that it has also positively affected
the economy more generally, which benefits all Americans. However, we are now seeing reports that
President Trump is considering scrapping this program despite the devastating
effect it will have. Joining me today to
talk all about the program and the impact its termination will have is Juan Escalante who is the Digital
Campaigns Manager for America’s Voice and America’s Voice Education Fund and a
DACA beneficiary himself who wrote an open letter to the President all about
the impact his decision will have.
Ever since he launched
his campaign for the Presidency, Donald Trump has been busy assembling a
rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers,
and climate-change deniers to run the federal government, and to survive the
next four years, we are all going to need to know who these people are and why
it is so dangerous that they have their hands are on the levers of power, and
we need to know how to challenge their abuses. Which is why veteran political
correspondent at The Nation and good
friend of the show, John Nichols, has
written a new book all about the histories and ideologies of the basket of
deplorables that make up Trump's inner circle, The book is called Horseman Of The Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America and John joins me today
in the studio to talk all about the book and all the latest insanity coming out
of the White House.
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