When Jose Machado heard President Donald Trump was ending the immigration program keeping him in the country, he had a one-word response:
“Liar.”
Machado and two other recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that they “convinced” Trump to support immigrant efforts to acquire legal status after they met him in 2013. Four years later, Trump said he is ending the program that protected the three from deportation after they were brought to the United States as children.
Gaby Pacheco, Diego Sánchez, and Machdo were on a tour to convince as many people as possible about the need to pass immigration reform like the DREAM Act, which would provide a path for permanent residency to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Specifically, they wanted to reach out to conservatives and Republicans like Trump.
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