John Kelly, Donald Trump's chief of staff, last week joined the ranks of senior officials who have reportedly declared that the President is “an idiot,” in this instance because he “doesn't even understand what daca is.” (Kelly later said that the report, from NBC News, was “total B.S.”) In fairness to Trump, though, few people in his Administration seem to fully grasp the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program—which has been in place since 2012—much less what it means for the seven hundred thousand young people, known as Dreamers, whom it has shielded from deportation.
Kelly, who is an immigration hardliner, also said, according to NBC, that he had stopped the President from making a “hasty deal” that would have helped the Dreamers; on a separate occasion, he had suggested that anyone eligible for daca who hadn't yet signed up for it was, perhaps, just “lazy.”
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