Posted on 11/05/2018 10:55:44 PM PST by bitt
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review its decision to rescind the Obama-era DACA program Tuesday night.
The request is unusual, because legal challenges to DACA’s termination are still underway in the lower courts.
The Justice Department said the Court must act now to resolve the dispute this term, but left-leaning civil rights groups called the petition a political student ahead of Tuesday’s election
The Trump administration returned to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday night seeking to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era amnesty initiative that extends protected status to illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as children.
The move is aggressive and unusual, as decisions on Trump’s efforts to rescind DACA are still pending in several federal appeals courts, and the justices seldom take up cases before those judgments issue. But the U.S. Department of Justice told the Supreme Court Monday that action is needed in the near term.
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It is a political stunt.
If the Supreme Court finds DACA unconstitutional, Trump still will not deport any of them, except the violent criminals.
Trump has done more to address our immigration problems since any president since Eisenhower, but that’s still not good enough for you. I admire your principles. By the way, who was your preferred candidate during the 2016 GOP primaries? Just curious.
The Trump administration asked the SC to review the matter directly in January 2018 but the SC declined in February 2018, stating they would await a prompt determination of the ninth. Of course the "supreme court of the west" has been dragging it's feet. Hence, the Justice Department is asking the SC to once again take up the matter since we may all grow old and grey before the ninth gets off their butts.
Trump, but only because he was the most Conservative candidate who had a chance to be elected.
I agree that Trump is better on Immigration than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but not by much.
Trump cut back on the number of refugees, and he has deported more criminal aliens than Obama.
Beyond that, I see no progress.
Trump's revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for several hundred thousand immigrants is a charade. They are all allowed to apply for a different status, and they can postpone their removal for years in court if they have to.
He promised to end DACA. Instead he offered Amnesty to 2.4 million DACAs in exchange for a Wall that never got built.
He promised to build a Wall. Instead - right now - he's building tent cities for illegal immigrant families.
In the first 15 months of his Presidency, he conducted fewer workplace immigration raids than Obama did in his first 15 months.
Until May 2018, Trump secretly enforced the Bush-Obama border policy “Catch and Release.” Even I had not realized that, and I read about immigration EVERY day. When he got caught, after the first Caravan, he blamed his dereliction on DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
By the way, Trump appointed a Chief of Staff and a DHS Secretary who both publicly endorse Amnesty.
Trump's Executive Orders to stop DACA, to stop Muslim country immigration, and to stop Birthright Citizenship are a political charade. He deliberately sends pro-immigration anti-Conservative DOJ lawyers to plead his E.O. cases in Court. They will still be litigating on Trump's last day in office.
Most of Trump's basic stats look just like Obama’s.
Legal immigration - 1.1 million per year. New Green Cards - 750,000. New Naturalized Citizens - 750,000. Work Visas - no obvious cuts.
I was hoping that Trump would at least slow down our immigration political suicide, but that is not happening.
One of these days - maybe today - legal Hispanic voters will turn out in record numbers, and the game will be over for Conservatives.
Maybe when they vote repetitively and illegally, they might indeed attempt to overthrow the US to steal even more than they have.
BTW, it isn’t the Hispanic voters as much as the illegal Latino voters and those who accompany them from more foreign sources who are the threat.
The Hispanic voters are all voting for Trump endorsed candidates.
Your Comments are not serious.
Trump got 28% of the Hispanic vote in the 2016 election.
As to illegal votes, if Trump cannot figure out how to stop illegal voters, we have only ourselves to blame, since we elected him.
If DACA killed, short of Congress acting, Trump will have no legal choice but to deport them. I will cheer when he does. Sadly, he’ll find a way to let them stay and infest the country.
Trump could have wiped out DACA his first day in office with a two sentence Executive Order...
“According to the exact language in the Immigration and Nationality Act, the DACA kids are unlawfully present in the USA. Consequently, I order the Secretary of Homeland Security to remove them.”
An Executive Order like that - which quotes an unambiguous statute - cannot even be reviewed by a federal judge.
But Trump is never going to do that.
My only hope is Trump is waiting till after midterms, after the Mueller probe and after USSC was full conservative will start making progress on it. Hopefully those will all be done by the end of the year (USSC already so, although I’d prefer 6-3).
We co not have ourselves to blame for the criminal activity of others.
That statement views representative government as collective punishment.
SCOTUS has original jurisdiction. But courts do not have the final say about disagreements within USgovernment executive, legislative and judicial.
DACA isn't a Executive Order. Obama simply applied policy of not enforcing such laws. Same with Trump, he didn't 'end' it with a EO. DACA has never been a EO.
His first month in office, and with great public fanfare, he created a Presidential Commission to stop voter fraud.
Then, with less public fanfare, he shut down the Commission and turned the problem over to the Department of Homeland Security.
If DHS has actually done something consequential about this issue, I have not heard about it.
If Trump believes he does not have enough legal and political authority to win the voter fraud battle in court and in the federal bureaucracy, then he should have mentioned that to us before we elected him President.
In my life time, Republicans have been helplessly squealing about voter fraud since Nixon-Kennedy in 1960.
Since Republicans have done absolutely nothing in the last 60 years to stop voter fraud, we have only ourselves to blame.
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