Posted on 01/18/2019 4:39:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court took no action on Friday on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It now appears likely that the court will not take up the issue during its current term, which would require the government to keep the program going for at least ten more months.
The Trump administration urged the justices to hear appeals of lower court rulings that prevent the government from shutting DACA down, but Friday was the last day for adding cases to the current term's docket, barring unusual circumstances. Any cases accepted in subsequent weeks won't be heard until the next term, which begins October 1, and it would take a few months more for the court to issue a decision.
DACA allows children of illegal immigrants to remain here if they were under 16 when their parents brought them to the US, provided they arrived by 2007. The Obama-era initiative has allowed 700,000 young people, commonly referred to as "Dreamers," to avoid deportation. The nickname comes from the DREAM Act, which would have offered many of the same protections as DACA but was never approved by Congress.
The Trump administration moved to end the program in late 2017, but federal courts in San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., blocked that attempt. Following a brief hiatus, the government began accepting renewal applications from DACA participants, which must be filed every two years.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that, far from being illegal, deferred action has been a feature of the immigration system for decades. "In a world where the government can remove only a small percentage of the undocumented non-citizens present in this country in any year, deferred action programs...
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All together now: “We need to get Republicans in there because of the COURTS!”
Yep - the Supreme Court will right the wrongs of the Congress.
Incidentally, the Legislative Branch is the final arbiter, per that piece of paper those old dead white men wrote, namely, the Constitution.
Republicans used to have control. Ten months from now the excuse will be “but, but...the election! Don’t want to antagonize the independents!
Ignore the court.
Freeloading lazy bitches. They need to do their job or resign. SCOTUS is a joke.
Barr is a anti-gun liberal POS!
Judicial tyranny is tyranny.
Too late now, he already gave in to these thugs. Freepers insist everything be Constitutional when the Courts certainly are acting extra Constitutional. Only way out of this mess will soon be Martial Law.
“Only way out of this mess will soon be Martial Law. “
I agree and I don’t think we’ll make it that far.
Demographics is destiny and a losing battle. Prepare.
Maybe Trump’s DOJ attorneys can ask the court for an extended court session because of the “shutdown”.
Farking absurd? Yes. But it’s a bad idea to violate a court order and take another jump into the banana republic thicket.
The proper and most effective way to retrieve self-government, the rule of law, and kick runaway federal courts to the curb is through Article V.
The rule of law exists for you and me, not them and passing more laws for them to ignore is a waste of time.
I refuse to admit defeat.
Start with repeal of the 17th Amendment. Not a waste of time.
Admitting something isn't working is not admitting defeat, it just shows that what you are doing is a waste of time and forces you to look at other solutions. laws mean nothing to the lawless.
The last election shows we are either now a minority or the democrats have perfected vote fraud, which of those situations can be solved by passing more laws?
Illegals keep coming because nothing happens to them for coming other than being rewarded with all the social benefits that are supposed to be reserved for citizens. That practice continues in spite of the President being opposed to it because his employees do not fear punishment.
This President is the last hope we have of avoiding a ghastly insurrection like the world has not seen before, that is why people are disappointed in the Presidents offer yesterday. He is not playing 4D chess and he does not have some Super Genius, Super Secret plan as George Bush always had. My hope is he will bring this mess to a successful termination, my fear is that Anne is correct.
Pray with all our might for the President.
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