A top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said Friday that President Donald Trump has instructed the agency to revise its guidelines around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with the aim of forcing lawmakers to negotiate a lasting, legal solution to the problem of people who entered the United States illegally as children.
“This morning he gave us the instruction—the Department of Homeland Security—redo the guidelines to wind down DACA, and that is intended, it will have the practical effect of forcing this back into Congress’ hands, where it always belonged in the first place,” said Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, in an interview Friday on Fox News.
