Activists marched from state Republican Party headquarters to downtown Minneapolis Tuesday evening, protesting President Trump’s plan to dismantle the government program that protects young immigrants illegally brought to the U-S as children. Catalina Morales with ISAIAH says, “I believe that God is standing with us, and I also believe that we need to see our communities as a whole.” Morales says immigrants are doing jobs that no one else is doing, and jobs in rural Minnesota won’t be filled if undocumented immigrants aren’t there. Minnesota G-O-P Chair Jennifer Carnahan responds, not true. She says, “If you look at the economy and let’s take a look at Minnesota, the state we live in: There are plenty of people who don’t have jobs, right?”
Carnahan says former President Obama’s implementation of the program was unconstitutional. “It’s Congress, not the president or the judicial branch, that is given the power to establish a uniform rule,” she says, and President Trump, instead of putting an immediate end to the DACA program, “rightly provided Congress the time to fashion a legislative solution to the issue.”
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