Obama Says Trump Shouldn’t Force Undocumented Children to Hide
- The president says American people wouldn’t want kids deported
- About 728,000 undocumented youth registered for Obama program
Obama News Conference: Trump, Presidential Transition
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President Barack Obama urged President-elect Donald Trump not to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who have enrolled in a program to temporarily protect them from being removed from the country.
Trump should "think long and hard before they are endangering the status of who, for all practical purposes, are American kids," Obama said Monday at a White House news conference. "These are kids who were brought here by their parents. They did nothing wrong. They’ve gone to school, they’ve pledged allegiance to the flag. By definition, if they’re part of this program, they are solid, wonderful young people with good character."