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Latinos root for Trump reversal on DACA
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Felipa Graham, owner of Botanica Ortencia on Atlanta Highway in Gainesville, said she's praying that God touches President Donald Trump's heart so he will make a deal with congressional Democrats on the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. - photo by Carlos Galarza
Many in the local Latino community don’t know what to make of the apparent about-face on the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program by President Donald Trump. The president has gone from rescinding on Sept. 5 the Obama-era executive order creating DACA — a program allowing some 800,000 illegal immigrants brought to the United States as minors to remain here and work — to last week negotiating with Democrat leaders in Congress a possible deal that would save DACA.