Fate of Dreamers could be decided in matter of days

AS a growing chorus of Republican Party members urge President Trump not to scrap the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the White House indicated a final decision from Trump will be announced Tuesday.

Trump is expected to announce Tuesday “that he has decided to end the 2012 program implemented by President Obama that has deferred deportations for people who came to the U.S. undocumented as children, CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports,” CBS News reported on its website.

Several administration officials said that Trump “is likely to phase out the program, but his advisers have engaged in a vigorous behind-the-scenes debate over precisely how to do so. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because no decision was final, also cautioned that the president was conflicted about the issue and could suddenly change his mind,” writes Julie Davis in the New York Times.

GOP leaders urge Trump to retain DACA

Meanwhile, several Republican lawmakers and governors are urging Trump to retain DACA.

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday “gave a major boost to legislative efforts to preserve protections for young undocumented immigrants — and urged President Donald Trump to not tear up the program,” reports CNN.

The Washington Post reported that “the late-stage opposition from some top Republicans — as well as from hundreds of major corporations such as Facebook, Google and Apple — has raised the pressure on Trump to preserve it.”

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, a Republican, in June “signed a letter demanding that President Donald Trump end DACA, a program that allows undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children to live and work here legally,” notes Slate.

Slatery has now done a 180 on DACA. On Friday, Slatery “publicly withdrew his demand and instead urged Trump to keep DACA—and to work with Congress to protect young undocumented immigrants,” Slate reported.

Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott “urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to summarily end an Obama-era program that protects from deportation immigrants brought into the country illegally as children,” the Miami Herald reported.