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Banks Statement on DACA Program

Statement

By: Jim Banks
By: Jim Banks
Date: Sept. 4, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children Immigration

Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) today issued the following statement regarding President Donald Trump's expected announcement on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:

"President Trump is fulfilling a campaign pledge by reasserting that Congress, not the executive branch, has the constitutional role of setting our country's immigration policy. President Obama never had the legal authority to change our nation's immigration laws.

"Congress must seize this opportunity and pass a solution that modernizes our outdated immigration policies, finally secures our border and increases enforcement to reduce illegal immigration. There is a path forward for Congress to fix our broken immigration system and resolve this situation, as President Trump has said, "with heart.'"


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