#and the local gov only gives me scraps

[exerlin]

Kamala should be running as a republican with all her positions. Fuck you and your entire party for pushing this country further right year after year! The red and blue teams are allies, and we are both their enemies and their slaves. Voting isn't going to help us at this point

[orbemnews]

Little Island Announces Resident Artists A long-term residency at Little Island will give the theatermakers Tina Landau, Michael McElroy and PigPen Theater Co., as well as the tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel, the chance to build the new public park’s performance arts programming from the ground up. The selected artists, announced on Wednesday, will craft, curate and perform for three seasons at the outdoor space, which is currently under construction in Hudson River Park near West 13th Street. “They all share this sense of joy and adventure and a real passion for embracing the things that might be possible in this public space,” Trish Santini, the park’s executive director, said in an interview. The residencies were planned before the coronavirus pandemic struck, but the ongoing performing arts shutdown has lent them greater importance: Little Island plans to begin performances in late spring — before actors, dancers and musicians are likely able to return to the city’s indoor stages. “There is a sense of urgency right now — for artists to be able to do their work, to have a voice in shaping how that work manifests in a new public space,” Santini said. The scope and level of artist involvement distinguish the Little Island residencies from some of their counterparts elsewhere. Not only will the artists direct and perform work, they will also cultivate relationships with the park’s community partners and organize festivals and others events over the course of multiple seasons. It’s a chance that McElroy, an actor, music director and leader of the Broadway Inspirational Voices choir, is relishing. “There’s an investment in artists and you can tell that because of the length of the residency,” he said. “It’s not a one-and-done. It allows me to dream big.” His plans include creating new musical-theater work, organizing a community-based initiative focused on the experience of seniors and providing opportunities for other musicians and singer-songwriters. The other three resident artists gravitate toward boundary-breaking work, as well. Landau, the Tony-Award nominated director of “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical,” began her career making site-specific works with En Garde Arts, including “Orestes” at the Penn Yards and “Stonewall: Night Variations” on Pier 25 on the Hudson River. Since 2005, Casel has been blending tap dance and storytelling to shed more light on the art form with her “Diary of a Tap Dancer” series. And PigPen, whose musical “The Tale of Despereaux” debuted the Old Globe Theater in 2019, is known for nimbly blending music, film and theater. The resident artists have already begun to shape the park’s offerings. They recently helped review submissions from local performers looking to contribute to Little Island’s inaugural season. Selections will be announced this spring. When it’s completed, Little Island will contain three open-air performance venues: a 700-seat amphitheater, a garden space for small-scale productions designed to accommodate 200 visitors and an open plaza that will host educational activities. This flexibility will afford Landau, McElroy, Casel and PigPen’s seven members options for how to devise and present their work. It should also make safely staging performances easier during the pandemic. Little Island has overcome several obstacles since it was announced in 2014. Legal challenges and soaring costs led Barry Diller, the park’s sponsor, to temporarily scrap the venture in 2017. It was revived later that year after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo convinced its opponents to drop their lawsuits by agreeing to complete Hudson River Park and protect the local estuary. Source link Orbem News #announces #Artists #Island #resident

[truesportsfan]

Greg Schiano carries big regret into his Rutgers ‘second chance’

For his band name, prefers “Second Chances” to “Unfinished Business.”

Schiano traveled through a wormhole in December and turned back time eight years to the end of his beginnings as a head coach. He brought home with him a band of more than a dozen coaches, trainers and administrators who once made Rutgers football prideful to New Jersey, relevant in New York City and pesky to national powers — but never fulfilled its championship goals.

“I left,” Schiano told The Post, “and I shouldn’t have left.”

Schiano, 53, is sitting in a black leather chair in the same (mostly empty) Hale Center corner office once filled with his memories. He is repurchasing a house he built in 2007. He is just back from a familiar coffee run to the QuickChek on River Road in Piscataway.

CEOs like Schiano — hands in marketing, budgeting, maintenance and all aspects of athletics, not just football — don’t deal in the wasted energy of hypotheticals.

But Schiano can’t resist here: If Rutgers was invited to leave the crumbling Big East for the Big Ten in January 2012 — instead of 10 months later — would he have turned down a five-year, $15 million contract from the NFL’s Buccaneers, as he did offers from college football titans Miami and Michigan?

“Yes,” Schiano said.

This answer is emphatic. Others, over the course of an hour-long conversation, are deliberate, marked by long pauses and thoughtful creases on his face.

“I ran from something, not to something,” he continued. “That wasn’t my dream to be the coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I didn’t like the way the horizon looked for us here.”

The Schiano era (2001-11) produced bowl berths in five of the final six years and an NFL pipeline anchored by Ray Rice and the McCourty twins, but he left behind what might have been his best team and best recruiting class.

In the time since, Schiano was fired after going 11-21 with the Buccaneers; spent two seasons as Ohio State’s defensive coordinator; landed a head-coaching job and lost it in one day to a Tennessee fan mob ill-informed about unsubstantiated hearsay he knew of Jerry Sandusky’s child sexual abuse at Penn State; resigned for family reasons as the New England Patriots defensive coordinator after two months; and sat out three football seasons.

In the time since, Rutgers is 35-56 and bowl-less since 2014. So, it’s not all picking up where he left off.

What Schiano built to last instead crumbled for many reasons, starting with the university’s refusal to give another coach the same power he wielded. Spring practice opens in two weeks and the depth chart has no cemented starters.

“The last eight years has been, ‘Get your dukes up,’ ” Schiano said. “Nothing surprises me anymore. Maybe that’s a bad place to be, but life teaches you. I feel like this isn’t a coincidence. But, man, did a lot of crazy stuff have to happen to get me back here.”

The Empire State Building was lit red Nov. 9, 2006, when Rutgers beat Louisville in a battle of unbeatens and climbed to No. 6 in the BCS rankings.

Thursday night games at Rutgers brought New York’s pro athletes across the bridges. A streak of 18 straight sellouts ended in 2009, after the stadium’s capacity was expanded from 41,500 to 52,454.

Rutgers’ average attendance in 2018 was 20,071, and eyeballed crowds looked smaller last season.

“Ultimately, you have to win,” Schiano said. “This is an event-driven area. When your games become events, it was a Who’s Who? on the sideline. It might take a while, but we will do that again.”

In Schiano’s first day back, Rutgers sold more new season tickets (excluding renewals) than it did the rest of 2019 combined, according to the athletic department. The number tripled over the next three months.

Rutgers AD Pat Hobbs (l.) and Greg Schiano.Robert Sabo

Six months before kickoff, there are midnight office huddles and Saturday morning staff meetings.

“I feel like I never left,” said recently returned Kevin MacConnell, who worked at Rutgers from 1986 until leaving for the Buccaneers with Schiano. “It’s 11 p.m. and he’s holding conversations with five of us, jumping back and forth, and I’m thinking, ‘Oh my god, this is the way it was. This is when we get our best stuff done.” ’

Except it almost never happened.

Rutgers fired Chris Ash in September, slow-walked its replacement search and tried to spin the narrative when scared off just before Thanksgiving by Schiano’s honest assessment of needs.

Then a crazy thing happened: Tortured fans united and bombarded the email accounts of university president Robert Barchi, athletics director Pat Hobbs, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and other VIPs, threatening to cut off allegiance and revenue — some six-figure donors — if Schiano wasn’t rehired.

“I am not sure that I will be able to maintain my enthusiasm,” wrote a 36-year season-ticket holder with a prominent position at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

The Post obtained signed emails through an Open Public Records Act request:

“We are sick and tired of being the laughingstock of not only the Big Ten, but of all of college athletics.”

“We have been all-in for a long time, but today our confidence is shaken.”

“Fire Pat Hobbs. Hire Greg Schiano. Save Rutgers Football.”

Negotiations resumed.

Schiano signed a record eight-year, $32 million contract with pledges to upgrade facilities and $7.7 million (a 155 percent increase over 2019) to spend on assistant coaches. The Wyckoff, N.J., native vows this “incredible staff” will help Version 2.0 be more efficient, understanding and content.

“Part of my insecurity as a coach was I felt like I had to do everything,” Schiano said. “Some of the things I felt I had to do, quite frankly, I had to — or they wouldn’t have gotten done at the level we wanted. Maybe that’s because we had a 25-year-old doing a 35-year-old man’s job, but that’s what we could afford.

“I feel like we’re close to getting things into systems that will allow us to be not such a Greg-centric program.”

MacConnell, now Schiano’s chief of staff, helped prepare Rutgers’ first pitch for expansion to the Big Ten and ACC in the 1990s. It fell on deaf ears.

Schiano privately laid out his vision to join the Big Ten as early as 2002 and chirped in the ear of commissioner Jim Delaney when possible.

“Eight years, a lot has changed,” MacConnell said. “But I walked in the building today and video of the [2006] Louisville game was on. That is still my greatest night ever. If you had said this [reunion] to me a year ago, I would’ve said, ‘How is that remotely possible?’ It’s because we all trust him.”

Hobbs is fundraising at unprecedented levels to benefit other sports, but Schiano says a football-only field house with an indoor practice facility rolling onto its state-of-the-art grass outdoor complex is needed to recruit in the Big Ten. Estimated price tag: $150 million, at least half of which has to be privately fundraised, per his contract.

“It’s not a little thing we’re fixing to do,” Schiano said. “I only would have come back if I believed the same thing I believed when I took it the first time: We can be the very best. I know people think I’m cuckoo.”

Greg Schiano waves as he is mentioned by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy during the State of the State address.AP

It’s enough if the local high school players and coaches think he is sane. He already changed his pro-style offensive philosophy to incorporate elements of the spread and entice top quarterbacks.

“If we could recruit a top class at Rutgers back then, why can’t we do it now?” Schiano said. “I hope I don’t have to prove that we did then was real. We should be in that ballpark, and then go flying past it.”

New Jersey is the recruiting lifeline, but Rutgers has more scholarship players from New York — “the high school football in New York City has gotten so much better,” he says — than any other Power Five conference team.

“In that way, we already are New York’s team,” Schiano said. “I’m sure the people up north [Syracuse] won’t like that, but I don’t particularly care.”

College football’s 150th anniversary just passed with Rutgers — hosts of the first game — mired in irrelevancy.

“My goal hasn’t changed one bit. My purpose has changed a little bit with age,” Schiano said. “I want to get there, but I want to get there while we are building into people. I was so driven that it probably had an adverse effect on reaching that goal.”

But the climb is more challenging now with annual games against Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State, right?

“I hear all the arguments,” Schiano said. “If you are from here, like I am, then it appeals to you. If you are not, it may not appeal to you.”

Those same fans who rallied for his hire carry accelerated expectations. Scrap the usual grace period — incremental improvements — given to a new coach.

This is Schiano’s 12th season at Rutgers. Or is it his first?

“We decided we were going to spend the rest of our careers here. Then things changed,” Schiano said. “That’s why I call it a ‘second chance’ to do my dream job. Usually, you don’t get that.”

source https://truesportsfan.com/sport-today/greg-schiano-carries-big-regret-into-his-rutgers-second-chance/

[kismetpetresort]

NC Senate race reflects Democratic dilemma: Stand on principle or stand with Republicans | Charlotte Observer

For six years Joel Ford has been a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He was a Democratic candidate for mayor last fall and before that chaired the Mecklenburg Democratic Party.

But along the way Ford has worked with Republicans. And now he faces a challenger who questions his party allegiance.

"I don’t believe that we need to appease Republicans," said Democrat Mujtaba Mohammed. "We’ve got to be able to provide people . . . with a bold progressive vision."

Mujtaba Mohammed

As much as any N.C. contest, the primary in Senate District 38 reflects national Democratic divisions between progressive ideals and pragmatic moderation, between standing on principle or standing with Republicans if that’s what it takes in a state where Republicans hold a solid grip on the General Assembly.

"I would describe it as a philosophical difference within the Democratic Party," said Ford, reciting a litany of his community’s challenges. "I, as a Democrat representing that constituency, don’t have the luxury of not engaging the leadership to help my district.”

Party credentials are likely to be a factor in a primary that typically draws the most committed and partisan voters.

For some voters, said Democratic consultant Dan McCorkle, "It’ll come down to party loyalty versus incumbency.”

Ford and Mohammed are two of four Democratic candidates in the district that stretches across north Charlotte from the airport in the west to the Cabarrus County line in the east. A majority of the district’s voters are African American and registered Democrats.

Tim Wallis, 26, is a systems engineer making his first run for office. Roderick Davis, 34, has run for several offices and won nearly 48 percent of the vote against Ford in the 2016 primary despite barely campaigning.

Mohammed, 32, is an assistant public defender and former official of the county Democratic Party. He’s a former staff attorney at the Council for Children’s Rights.

Ford, 49, is currently an executive consultant for Tennessee-based behavioral health company. He has called himself "a recovering entrepreneur."

In the Senate, Ford is a moderate who has worked with Republicans, who hold a "super-majority" with 35 of 50 seats.

"They don’t need us for anything so I am scrapping and working hard to bring deliverables to my district," he told the Observer. "You can play politics or you can deliver for your constituency."

Last summer Ford was one of four Democrats who joined Senate Republicans in voting for the final legislative budget. He was the only Mecklenburg Democrat in either chamber to back it. He touts the fact that it included $25 million for Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and $250,000 for Renaissance West, a childhood education program in west Charlotte that he championed when he chaired the Charlotte Housing Authority.

But Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed the GOP budget, saying it didn’t go far enough in helping teachers and schools. He said it "prioritizes tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations" while shortchanging working people. Ford, who was in Charlotte campaigning for mayor, was not in the Senate for the successful vote to override the veto. He said he would have voted with other Democrats to uphold the veto.

At a Black Caucus Forum this month, Mohammed said Democrats should fight for education and other issues they believe in.

"Why is it that as Democrats we should give up our values and our principles just to make (Republicans) happy?" he said. "Why do Democrats constantly have to move to the center while they move further to the right?"

Ford said Democrats have to be realistic as long as they’re in the minority.

"Unless we as Democrats in this state come up with agenda that will appeal to rural and suburban North Carolina, we will continue to be in the minority," he said at the forum. "It’s going to take 26 votes to get anything done in the North Carolina Senate. Then you’ve got to get (a majority) in the North Carolina House and a governor willing to sign it.”

Records show Ford voted against the Senate majority 22 percent of the time this session. That’s more than several Democrats including Sen. Jeff Jackson of Charlotte.

At the forum, Mohammed also chided Ford for missing votes last session while he ran for mayor.

Records show he had 34 excused absences, twice as much as any other senator. And he cast only 240 out of 574 possible votes, fewer than any senator.

"Our district went silent because we didn’t have a voice there," Mohammed said.

In the previous session, Ford cast 1,000 votes, 95 percent of the total. He said when he running for mayor last year, he rarely missed big votes.

"Major pieces of legislation you will find me present and voting with my district,” he said.

Ford, who got just 16 percent of the vote in Charlotte’s mayoral primary, said it’s about getting results in Raleigh.

"In this environment, with everything coming out of the Republican-controlled legislature, we need thoughtful and considerate Democrats who are still willing to provide solutions for our growing and dynamic (community).”

Jim Morrill, 704-358-5059; @jimmorrill

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[blackwestchester]

As a fitting ending to the Summer Of Trump, after vowing to treat recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program “with great heart,” United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump would end the initiative, which allowed young undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States without fear of deportation.

According to the announcement, Trump will institute a wind-down period for DACA, allowing Congress to potentially use that time towards developing a legislative solution to end the program. Until that time, DACA recipients will be allowed to remain in the United States. Under the plan, which was announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Congress has six months to come up with a legislative fix for the program, which will now expire next March.

Who will be affected?

Nearly 800,000 people have been approved under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, since the program was created by executive order by then-President Barack Obama in 2012. DACA gives participants a two-year deferral — which can be renewed — from being considered for deportation, and also grants work authorization. Anyone who was brought to the country illegally as a minor, was under the age of 31 on June 15, 2012 (when DACA took effect), and meets other requirements, is eligible to apply.

As expected several people have

Cuomo and Schneiderman vow New York will sue Trump over move to end DACA

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday reiterated his promise to sue over President Donald Trump’s decision to scrap a program shielding immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children from deportation.

Just minutes after Sessions made the announcement, Cuomo tweeted that New York would stand with DACA recipients. “We will not stand by as the lives of 42,000 New York Dreamers are destroyed,” the governor said.

 DACA — passed under the Obama administration in 2012 — applies to those who entered the country illegally before their 16th birthday, who have attended school or joined the military and who have not committed any serious crimes. Participants receive a renewable two-year period of protection from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

Attorney General Schneiderman said, “President Trump’s decision to end the DACA program would be cruel, gratuitous, and devastating to tens of thousands of New Yorkers—and I will sue to protect them. Dreamers are Americans in every way. They played by the rules. They pay their taxes. And they’ve earned the right to stay in the only home they have ever known. More than 40,000 New Yorkers are protected under DACA. They pay more than $140 million in state and local taxes. They are vital members of our community. The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty—written by the descendant of early Jewish immigrants—promises this nation will “lift its lamp” for the huddled masses. New York will never break that promise. And neither will my office.”

“Americans know how heartless ending #DACA is; ripping apart families & telling ppl who have worked hard to become Americans they must leave.” New York’s Senator Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) tweeted at 11:32 AM Tuesday. “These hardworking #DREAMers & their contributions are vital to our economy & biz who will be hurt if this order stands.

“Moving to end DACA will not make our communities safer or our economy stronger,” New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted Tuesday. “It’s time to give Dreamers the path to citizenship that they rightly deserve and pass the DREAM Act.”

Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York “To say I am enraged is an understatement. Trump lied to Dreamers and he lied to the American people when he said Dreamers could ‘rest easy.’ Fearing the threat of deportation and losing your ability to work and study is not ‘resting easy’ and serves as even further proof of how the Trump administration has consistently failed the immigrant community,” Espaillat, the first formerly undocumented immigrant to be elected to Congress, said in a statement.

Espaillat added that “today’s decision significantly damages our national interests at home and abroad.”

Statement from Board of Legislators Democratic Caucus on President Trump’s Actions Regarding DACA

“We are a nation of immigrants. Ending DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is a cruel move and a step back from the ideals upon which our country was founded. DACA, a policy put forth by President Obama, provided protections for immigrant youth who met certain criteria and afforded them a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

“DREAMers were brought here as small children to live out the American Dream – the same as many of us and our parents, grandparents, & great-grandparents. And just like our relatives, DREAMers have made the most of their opportunity by working hard, attending school, and contributing mightily to our economy and social fiber of our diverse nation. Ending this program means uprooting classrooms, small businesses, & communities as a whole. These are effects that will be felt by all – no matter your background.

“This move on the national level only serves to heighten the need for action at home. Including our introduction of an anticipated resolution demanding the federal government reverse this decision on DACA & securing an override of the County Executive’s veto of the Immigrant Protection Act, a bi-partisan act that fully complies with federal law that aims to provide protections to our neighbors that Washington is failing. Targeting immigrants in our community is not the American way.”

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The following, is a statement released by Neighbors Link executive director, Carola Bracco, in response to the announcement by the Department of Justice and President Trump on the status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrives (DACA).

“Neighbors Link is not completely surprised by the decision of the Department of Justice at the request of President Trump to cease and desist the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival.  Data shows that those who are registered know no other country as their home but the United States due to their age when they arrived.  Data shows that DACA recipients are either working or in school – either way contributing to their communities and the economy.  If these are not the values and activities that we believe in as a country, then what are?  We are not surprised, but we are no less heartbroken with this irrational, illogical and indefensible decision by this administration.  We are now even more determined to support and defend the rights of the almost 800,000 individuals who proudly call themselves DACAmented Americans.”

Statement by George Gresham, President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, on ending of DACA  “President Donald Trump has made several destructive decisions during his nearly eight months in office. Few, however, are as cruel and damaging as the destruction of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This program has provided renewable, two-year work permits to undocumented immigrants who have lived in this country since they were children and often only know the United States as home. They’re called Dreamers, but President Trump has created a nightmare for these nearly 800,000 people, most of whom have made positive contributions to the U.S.

Destroying DACA serves no measurable purpose, and is opposed by the great majority of American people. The Trump Administration seems determined to tear apart the very fabric our country was built upon, along with every signature program President Obama spearheaded during his eight years in office. The 400,000 healthcare workers with 1199SEIU know full well the harm ending DACA will cause members of our own families. We stand with Governor Cuomo, Attorney General Schneiderman, Mayor de Blasio and all people of conscience in vowing to fight against this politically driven action, which will rob our country of talent, break apart families and result only in hurt.”

Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona

“President Trump’s decision to eliminate DACA is the wrong approach to immigration policy at a time when both sides of the aisle need to come together to reform our broken immigration system and secure the border,” McCain said in a statement. “While I disagreed with President Obama’s unilateral action on this issue, I believe that rescinding DACA at this time is an unacceptable reversal of the promises and opportunities that have been conferred to these individuals.”

Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington

“I’ve long said I didn’t agree with the way the previous administration went about enacting DACA, but we must protect children who are already here in this country and those who are currently protected under DACA. That principle is fundamental for me,” McMorris Rodgers said in a statement.

Former President Bill Clinton

Even Former President Bill Clinton tore into President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, calling the move “wrong” and “cruel.” Clinton slammed the decision as one that will “crush their dreams and weaken the American dream for the rest of us.”

“It’s wrong because it’s bad policy that solves no pressing problem and raises new ones. It’s wrong because it’s irresponsible, passing the buck instead of offering sensible solutions for immigration reform,” Clinton said in his statement.

Former President Barack Obama

  Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday that it is “wrong,” “self-defeating” and “cruel” for the Trump administration to end an Obama-era program that allowed younger undocumented immigrants to continue to live in the United States without fear of deportation.

“Let’s be clear: The action taken today isn’t required legally. It’s a political decision, and a moral question,” Obama said in a lengthy statement posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon, following an announcement earlier in the day that the Trump administration will unwind the program, pending action from Congress in the next six months. “Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn’t threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us. … Kicking them out won’t lower the unemployment rate, or lighten anyone’s taxes, or raise anybody’s wages.”

Obama started the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, through executive action in 2012 after legislation aimed at doing the same thing failed in Congress, and he defended his decision to do so in the statement. Under the program, young people who were illegally brought to the United States as children can apply to receive a renewable two-year work permit, allowing them to get a driver’s license and qualify for lower tuition rates at public universities. Since it began, nearly 800,000 young people have qualified for the program. Obama said that many of these young people have not known life in any country but the United States, and they are Americans “in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper.” The program allows these young people to live their lives without fear of deportation, Obama said, and that with the Trump administration’s decision, a “shadow has been cast over some of our best and brightest young people once again.”

American Civil Liberties Union

“Today is a cruel day for Dreamers, our families and all Americans. President Trump’s decision to end DACA is a manufactured crisis in response to an artificial deadline from anti-immigrant leaders,” Lorella Praeli, the ACLU’s director of immigration policy and campaigns, said in a statement.

“There is no humane way to end DACA before having a permanent legislative fix in place. President Trump just threw the lives and futures of 800,000 Dreamers and their families, including my own, into fearful disarray and injected chaos and uncertainty into thousands of workplaces and communities across America. He is using the lives of 800,000 people as pawns,” she added.

Anti-Defamation League

“This action by the president and his administration is cruel, unnecessary and inconsistent with the core values of our country. We support an immigration policy that is comprehensive, protects our security, reunites families and improves our economy while honoring our values as a nation of immigrants. We support a bipartisan effort to protect these young immigrants through legislative action and renew our call on Congress to act now,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said in a statement.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

“The original DACA program announced in 2012 was premised on sound public policy, and unlike DAPA, it was not challenged in court. Individuals enrolled in good faith and became ingrained in our communities and the nation’s economy. To reverse course now and deport these individuals is contrary to fundamental American principles and the best interests of our country,” Neil Bradley, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s senior vice president and chief policy officer, said in a statement.

“With approximately 700,000 DACA recipients working for all sorts of businesses across the country, terminating their employment eligibility runs contrary to the president’s goal of growing the U.S. economy,” he added.

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

“The cancellation of the DACA program is reprehensible. It causes unnecessary fear for DACA youth and their families. These youth entered the U.S. as minors and often know America as their only home,” the president, vice president and committee chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement. “We strongly urge Congress to act and immediately resume work toward a legislative solution. We pledge our support to work on finding an expeditious means of protection for DACA youth.”

    Responses To Trump Ending DACA As a fitting ending to the Summer Of Trump, after vowing to treat recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program “with great heart,” United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump would end the initiative, which allowed young undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States without fear of deportation.