Many in the local Latino community don’t know what to make of the apparent about-face on the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program by President Donald Trump.
The president has gone from rescinding on Sept. 5 the Obama-era executive order creating DACA — a program allowing some 800,000 illegal immigrants brought to the United States as minors to remain here and work — to last week negotiating with Democrat leaders in Congress a possible deal that would save DACA.
Latinos root for Trump reversal on DACA