Reverend Jesse Jackson Senior denounced President Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – or DACA.
The program shields about 800-thousand people who came to the United States illegally as children.
Jackson led a civil rights discussion at Northern Illinois University today as part of a statewide tour. He says ditching DACA could mean mass deportations.
“It would disrupt families and teachers and workers. We as a nation deserve better than that. We must make room for these Americans in fact. They grew up on the land that they know.”
Jackson says the country needs humane legislation. So he’s been working with Illinois’s two U-S senators on the issue.