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3:40 PM ET, September 5, 2017

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Barack Obama:
Immigration can be a controversial topic.  We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy, and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules.  —  But that's not what the action that the White House took today is about.
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New York Times:
Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation and called on Congress to replace the policy with legislation before it fully expires on March 5, 2018.
Speaker.gov:
Statement on DACA Program  —  WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement following the Trump administration's announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Trump Administration Now Has Tons Of DACA Data And Is Poised To Weaponize It … DACA recipients - often called DREAMers - are facing a new nightmare.  According to the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may use the information these people gave …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Staffers worried Trump didn't fully grasp consequences of ending DACA: report  —  Trump administration officials worried ahead of the announcement Tuesday of a phaseout of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that President Trump didn't fully understand what the move would mean.
Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
Urgent DACA legislation is both an economic imperative and humanitarian necessity  —  We are deeply disappointed by the administration's decision today to rescind protection under the program for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).  As we said last week, we believe this is a big step back for our entire country.
New York Times:
On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path
Politico:
Full text: Jeff Sessions on Trump ending DACA program
Discussion: ABC News and Power Line
Fox News:
President Trump's statement on DACA
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Mediaite and ROMPER
ABC News:
Trump administration announces plan to end DACA
Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:   Immigrants protest in metro Detroit as Trump pulls plug on DACA
Department of Homeland Security:
Frequently Asked Questions: Rescission Of Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Discussion: Splinter
Washington Post:
Catastrophic Hurricane Irma — now a Cat 5 — is on a collision course with Florida  —  Hurricane Irma is an “extremely dangerous” Category 5, barreling toward the northern Lesser Antilles and Southern Florida.  It's already the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico …
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CNN:
Hurricane Irma is a ‘potentially catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Hurricane Irma Public Advisory
The Moscow Times:
Putin Says Trump Is Not His Wife  —  Actors in prosthetic make-up portraying Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump  —  President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it would be misplaced to talk of “disappointment” in the context of U.S. President Donald Trump, because the two leaders are not married.
Discussion: Business Insider and IJR
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Oleg Matsnev / New York Times:
Trump Is ‘Not My Bride,’ Putin Says
Discussion: CNN, RT and Washington Free Beacon
Lucy Pasha-Robinson / The Independent:
Russian politician says 'let's hit Trump with our Kompromat' on state TV
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Steve Bannon's meeting with Mark Meadows  —  Steve Bannon met with Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows on Monday afternoon at the “Breitbart Embassy” — the Capitol Hill townhouse so-named because those who work at the right-wing website like to think of themselves as the ambassadors for “real America” in Washington, D.C.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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NBC News:
The Bannon Factor: GOP Should Brace for ‘Bloody September’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Pessimism abounds on Trump tax reform effort
Madeline Conway / Politico:
McCarthy: Republicans will punt wall fight to December  —  House Republicans plan to pass a three-month continuing resolution to fund the government this month and will push any fight over President Donald Trump's border wall until later this year, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Congress Faces a Tense Agenda, With Little Margin for Error
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Impeaching Trump is a long shot. There's another way to protect the country.
Bloomberg:
Key Trump Aide's Departure Rattles President's Allies  —  Aide has worked for Trump since 1999 and is a close confidant  —  President Donald Trump's allies are worried that the most damaging of the many recent departures from his White House may be that of Keith Schiller …
CNN:
Intensifying Russia probes could pit Hill against Mueller  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Lawyers working with a team led by special counsel Robert Mueller approached the Senate intelligence committee this summer with a request: They wanted the transcript of an interview Senate staff …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Spicer lands post-White House gig  —  Sean Spicer is cashing in on “candor.”  —  President Donald Trump's first press secretary — who ceded his high-profile post to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in July but celebrated his official last day in the West Wing on Aug. 31 — has signed with Worldwide Speakers Group …
Dan Merica / CNN:
New Clinton book blasts Sanders for ‘lasting damage’ in 2016 race  —  Sanders booed after voicing support for Clinton  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton casts Bernie Sanders as an unrealistic over-promiser in her new book, according to excerpts posted by a group of Clinton supporters.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Conservative publisher wants nothing more to do with Times  —  https://apnews.com/58606fa07433442ba470 a91d374f8926  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A company that publishes books by Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and other conservative authors says it wants nothing to do anymore …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Former Sheriff David Clarke joins pro-Trump PAC  —  Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D), who resigned from his law enforcement post last week, is joining a leading pro-Trump political action committee, the PAC announced Tuesday.  —  America First Action praised the former sheriff's career …
Discussion: Politico and Axios
 
 
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Washington Post:
‘If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?’ Undocumented workers could be key to Texas recovery.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Utah hospital to cops: Stay away from our nurses
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump has learned well from her father's cons
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Why Does Trump Always Shoot The Hostages?
Tyler Kingkade / BuzzFeed:
Betsy DeVos Is Planning A Major Title IX Announcement This Week
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