国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trumps plan to end young immigrants protection program reignites hot debate_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trumps plan to end young immigrants protection program reignites hot debate

Under the program, Dreamers can apply to defer deportation and legally reside in the U.S. for two years. After that, they can apply for renewal.

By March 31, 240,700 people had applied for renewal in the 2017 fiscal year and nearly 800,000 renewals have been approved over the life of the program.

"We warned you not to threaten our neighbors, @realDonaldTrump," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Tuesday minutes after Sessions made the announcement.

"New York City will fight to defend our Dreamers," de Blasio added, using a term commonly used to refer to recipients of DACA.

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday also threatened to sue if Trump moved to end the DACA program.

Yet there are voices expressing concern that the DACA has amounted to an amnesty for illegal immigrants.

"I support immigrants and immigration standards focused on national security only because it is clear to me that immigrants have always been and remain a huge net positive to America," Lee Cheng, co-founder and director of the Asian American Legal Foundation, told Xinhua Tuesday.

"However, I have to say that as with everything Trump related, there is a lot of misinformation being promulgated by the media and immigration activists," Cheng said.

The problem and challenge with "broad amnesty of almost any kind" can be seen in the aftermath of the amnesty granted to illegal immigrants under President Reagan, he said, "No one can dispute that the amnesty absolutely encouraged even more illegal immigration in the following 2 decades and is the driver of many of the immigration issues facing America today."