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.@FWDus President @TheToddSchulte issued the following statement today after the Trump Administration issued a new memo to radically slash #DACA protections, setting the stage to end DACA if Trump is re-elected: fwd.us/news/fwd-us-st…

“To start: it is critical that everyone acknowledge the dangerous situation in which President Trump has been operating: He has, for weeks, remained in open defiance of the Supreme Court by refusing to accept new #DACA applicants.” — @TheToddSchulte

“Now today, the Trump Administration announced plans to move ahead on a two-step plan to kill #DACA, while pretending otherwise. First, they will move to radically reduce DACA benefits effective today...” — @TheToddSchulte

“...Second, they have set the stage to kill #DACA in 2021- or even later this year. And given that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to ending DACA, they are trying to spin the press that this is somehow a moderate position...” — @TheToddSchulte

“...In fact, this would result in deportations of nearly 700,000 #DACA recipients beginning in a year. The President is trying to avoid the political consequences of his wildly unpopular actions against #Dreamers, while appealing to his anti-immigrant base.” — @TheToddSchulte

“Cutting the program’s length in half—as of today—and excluding hundreds of thousands of new #DACA applicants is cruel and chaotic. Killing #DACA was wrong in 2017. It is wrong today.” — @TheToddSchulte

“The President lost in the highest court in the land and he has lost decisively in the court of public opinion. Continuing a pattern of three years of a huge public reaction against his anti-immigrants agenda...” — @TheToddSchulte

“...the President’s actions today are widely unpopular because they will hurt our country, and will continue to create massive challenges for him in the upcoming election.” — @TheToddSchulte fwd.us/news/fwd-us-st…