{"id":326891,"date":"2017-09-20T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rep-luis-gutierrez-on-why-hes-protesting-trumps-racist-policies-like-ending-daca\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:45:38","slug":"rep-luis-gutierrez-on-why-hes-protesting-trumps-racist-policies-like-ending-daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rep-luis-gutierrez-on-why-hes-protesting-trumps-racist-policies-like-ending-daca\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Luis Guti\u00e9rrez on Why He&#039;s Protesting Trump&#039;s Racist Policies, Like Ending DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration plans to rescind the <span class=\"caps\">DACA<\/span> program &#8212; the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. <span class=\"caps\">DACA<\/span> gives nearly 800,000 young people the legal right to live and work in the United States. President Trump and Democratic Party leaders are now attempting to strike a deal to protect DREAMers. Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi met with President Trump at the White House for a meeting aimed at enshrining the protections of <span class=\"caps\">DACA<\/span> into law. After the meeting, Trump said any potential deal would rely on also approving &#8220;massive border security.&#8221; On Monday morning, dozens of undocumented activists and their allies shouted down Congressmember Pelosi during her news conference, accusing her of using DREAMers as &#8220;bargaining chips&#8221; in her meeting with Trump. The protesters demanded protections not only for DREAMers, but for all 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. We speak with Congressmember Luis Guti\u00e9rrez, Democrat of Illinois. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee and the co-chair of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">JUAN<\/span> GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong> We begin today&#8217;s show by looking at the political showdown over <span class=\"caps\">DACA<\/span>, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. <span class=\"caps\">DACA<\/span> gives nearly 800,000 young people the legal right to live and work in the United States. It was implemented by President Obama in 2012 after years of grassroots protests led by undocumented students nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration plans to rescind the <span class=\"caps\">DACA<\/span> program. But President Trump and Democratic Party leaders are now attempting to strike a deal to protect DREAMers. Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi met with President Trump at the White House for a meeting aimed at enshrining the protections of <span class=\"caps\">DACA<\/span> into law. After the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/41982-rep-luis-gutierrez-on-why-he-s-protesting-trump-s-racist-policies-like-ending-daca\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration plans to rescind the DACA program &#8212; the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. DACA gives nearly 800,000 young people the legal right to live and work in the United States. President Trump and Democratic Party leaders are now attempting to strike a deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}