Governor Mark Dayton and 10 other governors have sent a letter to Congressional leaders, urging them to immediately pass legislation allowing those on the DACA program to remain in the United States. Dayton and his colleagues say President Trump canceling the program is not the answer to the nation’s need for comprehensive immigration reform. They say DACA recipients are hard-working young people who were brought to the U-S as young children, and should not be penalized for gridlock in Washington. Dayton said earlier this week as news broke of the president’s decision, “Here in Minnesota… [we have] a shortage of skilled workers, so we’re gonna take some 62-hundred that are here under DACA and send them away? It’s lunacy.”
Minnesota Republican leaders say former President Obama’s implementation of DACA was unconstitutional and President Trump has rightly given Congress time to work out a solution.