CHC Chair Statement on Trump’s Immigration Tweets
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April 2, 2018
Trump is Attempting to Rewrite History & Gaslighting
Washington, D.C. - Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chairwoman Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump posted a series of tweets on immigration:
"President Trump's claim that everyone but him is responsible for the lack of a permanent legislative solution for Dreamers is completely absurd and a lie. In truth, Trump terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and rejected numerous bipartisan proposals to solve the crisis he created.
"Instead of working productively to find a bipartisan solution for Dreamers, the President is attempting to rewrite history with a dangerous, anti-immigrant gaslighting campaign aimed at confusing the American people, slandering the DACA program, and disparaging asylum seekers. The President's erratic tweets reveal that he doesn't care about risking Dreamers' lives and holding them hostage as long as he can erect his border wall and enact his anti-immigrant agenda. Furthermore, his tweets show his deep ignorance about the immigration policies that he is slamming. If he understood the DACA program, he would know that the program is no longer accepting new applicants and young people only qualified for DACA, if they'd been in the US as of June 2007.
"It is shameful and beneath the office of the Presidency for Trump to continue spreading misinformation meant to incite xenophobia. We must not only condemn Trump's attempts to sow chaos and disorder with misinformation and gaslighting for purely political purposes, we must combat it with the truth. Absent any type of productive leadership from the President, it's up to Congress to meet its responsibility to pass a permanent legislative solution for Dreamers that includes a path to citizenship."
On February 28, 2018, five days before Trump's March 5th DACA deadline, the Leadership of the CHC sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump listing the numerous bipartisan efforts that he has rejected and calling for a permanent solution for Dreamers. See that letter here.
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), founded in December 1976, is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed under the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. The CHC is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories.