{"id":7044,"date":"2018-04-25T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2018-04-25T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:36:29","slug":"white-house-fights-that-daca-protections-must-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7044","title":{"rendered":"White House fights that DACA protections must continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is fighting back against a federal judge\u2019s ruling that the Trump administration must again accept new applications for protection from undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and keep the program in place.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Sarah Sanders Wednesday maintained the administration\u2019s position that the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for the approximately so-called 700 thousand Dreamers violates federal law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the judge&#8217;s ruling is extraordinarily broad and wrong on the law,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cWhat&#8217;s worse is that it creates an incentive for more illegal immigrant youth to come here and causes them to expect similar judicial policies be applied to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders put the onus on Congress to come up with a permanent fix to the\u00a0<a id=\"ramplink_DACA_\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/news\/immigration\/immigration-policy.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DACA<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s time for Congress to do what the president has called on them to do and offered to be part of and actually fix this problem,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is fighting back&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}