City to shield ID card holders
the issue working.”
“The pressure is beginning to reverberate in (Trump’s) own comments. Let’s keep it up,” he added.
But Frank Sharry, executive director of the America’s Voice Education Fund and an immigration advocate, said, “If Trump is serious about making people ‘happy and proud,’ he would reverse his position on canceling DACA and maintain the policy until he works with Congress to pass a broad, ample and standalone of the Dreamers is DREAM Act.”
Since winning the race, Trump has tempered his position, telling “60 Minutes” last month he would only deport “the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers . . . probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million.”
“I don’t see this as a softening, but an acknowledgment of the weakness of his plan,” said Allan Wernick, an immigration law attorney and director of City University of New York’s Citizenship Now! Project.
In another sign Trump could be receptive to reaching a solution regarding the future of Dreamers, he met Wednesday at Trump Tower with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The Windy City leader delivered the mogul a letter signed by 17 mayors — including Mayor de Blasio — formally requesting that he continue to implement DACA.
Trump made anti-immigration positions a cornerstone of his presidential campaign — vowing to build a wall along the Mexico border, deport 11 million people living in the country illegally using a “deportation force,” and calling the children of undocumented people “anchor babies.” THE CITY will stop retaining the personal information of New Yorkers who apply for the municipal ID program open to undocumented immigrants, part of an effort to protect people in danger of deportation in the upcoming Trump administration. Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced Wednesday that the city is “transitioning to a policy that does not involve the retention of cardholders' personal background documents.” Applicants will still be required to bring backup documents to prove their identity to get a card. For now, the personal documents from hundreds of thousands of card holders — including undocumented immigrants — who already are part of the program are still on file. Meanwhile, a Brooklyn judge Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the city from destroying any ID data as part of a lawsuit filed by several Republican pols.