in custody. daca protections only apply to people who have lived in the united states continuously since june 15th, 2007. no matter how hard you try, you cannot jump on the daca bandwagon. it is nonsense. it is a lie. and yesterday the president fumed, quote, daca is dead because the democrats didn t care or act and now everyone wants to get on to the daca bandwagon. no longer works, must build sorry, wrong page no longer works, must build wall and secure our borders with proper border legislation. democrats want no borders, hence drugs and crime. for fact sake, members of both parties have proposed daca. it is dead only because president trump ended it. not the democrats so there s pretty much nothing in those tweets that made no sense. for more, we re joined by our friend, raul reyes, an attorney and nbc news
bridge or wall too far that prevented congressional agreement. he wanted to reduce legal immigration by 40%, the biggest reduction since the 1920s. and when democratics would not accept that part of that four-pillar plan? right, that was really, i think, the piece that was, again, the wall too far. there are so many things in the statements today, in the tweets today, that are incorrect. i mean, it requires a minute to kind of go through them. first of all, the idea that people would be coming here to take advantage of daca, daca requires you to be continuously living in the united states since june 15th, 2007, period, full stop. no one who has not been here continuously since then and it also requires you to have been physically present in june of 2012. so the idea people are coming here to take advantage for daca is completely wrong. whatever the merits of a caravan like this may be, ana, in terms of making a point, it obscures the larger truth. the undocumented population of
jeff sessions announcing that daca will end in six months, congress has six months in which to come up with some sort of alternative. the argument here is that it was done illegally as a memo by president obama when it is in the purview of congress to offer legislati legislation. can i show you a little bit about daca during the six month period they need to figure out what too do with existing participants. there a800,000 of them. this was created by president obama on june 5th, 2012 when congress was not able to come up with a viable plan for these people who had come to america as children. it s got about 800,000 people that are young documented immigrants. they are brought to the u.s. by their parents as children. there are certain rules you had to comply with to be part of daca. you have to have arrived in the united states before the age of 16. you must have lived in the united states since june 15th, 2007 and couldn t have been older than 30 when the program
before before your 16th birthday and be under the age of and reside in the u.s. since june 15th, 2007 and in school and have a diploma or a ged or be a veteran and some are serving in the military. note that. you have to have no felonies or significant misdemeanor convictions and not a threat to national security or public safety. so if you look at just who these folks are, maria, median age is 25-year-olds and the age was 6-year-olds and 91.4% are employed and 56 were not employ yd before dack dwrk daca. so they are american kids, jose romero. he is like what i do. i m an american citizen. i m upset about this and can t believe i m getting emotional but it is because in fact these kids represent the best, right.