President Trump plans to introduce an ambitious new immigration measure next month that may include a path to citizenship for recipients of the DACA program that has allowed young people to stay in the United States with no specific future commitment.
“We’re working out the legal complexities right now, but I’m going to be signing a very major immigration bill as an executive order, which the Supreme Court now, because of the DACA decision, has given me the power to do that,” Trump told Noticias Telemundo in an interview.
DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is a program that since Obama presidency gives those young people the right to work and live in the United States, who as children were brought to the United States without proper immigration documentation.
Trump has been focusing on immigration, a top issue with his voting base in the election year and sought to do away the program as part of his efforts to limit immigration into the United States.
The Supreme Court overturned his move, declaring the program could continue to remain in place.
According to an NPR report, Trump says the DACA dreamers are “going to be part of a much bigger bill on immigration.”
“It’s going to be a very big bill, a very good bill, and merit-based bill and it will include DACA, and I think people are going to be very happy.”
Trump said the new measure would “give them a road to citizenship.”
Immigration has been a central issue for Trump since his 2016 election, and this year he has paused immigration into the country citing coronavirus emergency and the need to prefer Americans for any job openings amid record unemployment.
