More than 100 attend a rally supporting immigration reform in downtown Des Moines following the Trump administration's DACA announcement.
The Register’s Jan. 18 editorial, "Congress should pass DACA fix, ignore Trump," omitted President Trump’s relevant history and that it was him who created the current uncertainty and pain by rescinding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals back in September. Trump led the birther madness for five years and questioned an Indiana-born federal judge's impartiality because he was "Mexican." And we know exactly who he is as president because he tried to legitimize the Ku Klux Klan after a Charlottesville, Va., woman was killed by a white supremacist.
President Obama's DACA executive order established a civilized response and a blueprint for an easy solution to the chaos gripping the hearts and minds of 690,000 young people who are American in everything but a piece of paper. So, with Republicans holding the House, Senate and White House, all they had to do was pass a clean DACA bill and we could’ve avoided this mess. Separately, Congress could've allowed for Trump's wall as long as Mexico provides the startup money and agrees to payments, fulfilling his campaign promise. But huge tax cuts for the wealthiest were prioritized ahead of the Dreamers, who were deliberately targeted by a president who seems happiest when he is hurting people.
— Tim Facto, Des Moines