Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Inside Story - What's the Fall-out from Scrapping DACA?


About 800,000 young people in the United States are now in legal limbo.

President Trump has scrapped the Obama era immigration programme known as DACA - or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

It protected young undocumented immigrants from deportation. Now Congress has six months to replace it.

Former President Barack Obama has called it "cruel and wrong," but Trump says he's upholding the constitution.

So, what does it mean for those who know no country other than the US? And is politics involved in this controversial decision?

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Rina Shah - Founder & Principal of Rilax Strategies; Noor Zafar - Attorney at the Centre for Constitutional Rights; Joe Watkins - Republican Political Strategist.