Posted on 01/31/2018 2:26:17 PM PST by jazusamo
Nicholas G. Garaufis is the latest federal judge to disrupt President Trump's policy agenda and question his morals.
Trump is guilty of "recurring, redundant drumbeat of anti-Latino commentary," Garaufis said in a Brooklyn courtroom Wednesday while hearing a case on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA participants and 16 states have challenged Trump's decision to end the program.
"It's extreme, it's recurring, it's vicious," Garaufis added.
Colleen Melody, a lawyer for the state of Washington, at one point asked if Trump would have made the same decision on DACA if its beneficiaries hailed from Norway. Clearly, she was making reference to Trump's controversial immigration comments, where he reportedly called Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations "s***hole "countries, but heaped praise on Norway.
"My observation was that most of people that I ran into in Norway when I was there were white," Garaufis couldn't help but note.
Trump announced his plans to end the program last September, denouncing it as an executive overreach by his predecessor President Obama. Yet, he gave Congress six months to try and make DACA constitutional. The March deadline is fast approaching.
Despite Trump's six-month window, Democrats still railed against his callous move. How could he threaten children who came here illegally as minors? For many of them, America is the only home they've ever known.
The issue is such a hot topic that it even led to a government shutdown two weeks ago. Democrats refused to vote for a spending bill that did not protect DACA recipients. Trump extended another hand last week. This one was pretty generous. He offered a path to citizenship for younger "Dreamers" in 10-12 years, in exchange for border wall funding.
It was still a non-starter. Democrats accused the president of holding Dreamers hostage for his immigration plans.
A federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the Trump administration's DACA plans earlier this month.
Trump is familiar with rebelling judges. Last year, when he tried to implement his temporary travel ban on six Muslim-majority nations, he faced resistance in courtrooms all over the country.
Judge Garaufis did not announce when he'd make his ruling on DACA.
Oh, what nonsense. Trump’s comments have been neither “extreme” nor “vicious,” and “recurring” only in the most general sense of “more than one.”
it’s a hail mary to try to get it under equal protection as viewed from the far left
of course to the more moderate, let alone the right, that’s silly because who’s going to sneak in from mexico. finns?
No one noting that, in fact, Norway has far better demographics than the $..hold countries. OR that POTUS had met with the Norweigian PM the day before that comment was made.
This is not about ‘Latino’ or ‘Hispanic’. This is about having a fair and balanced immigration policy that strengthens the US, and about preserving the sovereignty of our nation by protecting our borders and stopping illegal immigration. For many years now Hispanics have been favored in immigration, including chain migration, over many other groups. It’s not like they were discriminated against.
According to Pew:
There were 56.5 million Hispanics in the United States in 2015, accounting for 17.6% of the total U.S. population (and this doesn’t include illegal immigration). In 1980, with a population of 14.8 million, Hispanics made up just 6.5% of the total U.S. population. Despite that huge increase, the Democrats don’t want there to be any slow down of immigration, don’t want an end to chain migration, and they don’t want illegals deported. Instead, they make inflammatory racist remarks (e.g. “Trump wants to make America White again). The irony is that if they thought Hispanics would be Republican voters, they’d push for a moratorium on Hispanic immigration tomorrow.
The March deadline is fast approaching.
The media and the establishment are saying there is a March deadline for DACA. That is a lie. A radical federal judge in San Francisco put a hold on ending it. The SC has the case and will not rule until June. The REAL deadline is sometime in June.
“Despite Trump’s six-month window, Democrats still railed against his callous move. How could he threaten children who came here illegally as minors? “
A very simple question needs to be asked, based in part on my suspicion that the majority of DACA “dreamers” were brought here by their parents. Where are - in most cases - their parents that brought them here, illegally. Are they too still here illegally? Is not the rest of immigration law, together with the proposed DACA bills, just a way to gradually make the illegals who brought their kids here LEGAL also? If so, that is surely another major reason to oppose DACA.
Bump!
Saying Hispanics don’t have to obey the law is Hispanic supremacy.
Correct: should be removed from the bench.
This DACA thing sunsets on March 5th. Then IMO Trump will start rounding up the dreamers and quietly deporting them. These judges will be powerless.
Another black-robe fascist traitor who needs to be removed from the bench by Congress and sent to prison for sedition.
Democrats are guilty of using WMD against American citizen taxpayers in the form of illegal immigration to decimate political opposition to their Orwellian vision of a Utopian obamanation.
Thanks jazusamo. He's deciding whether Trump's constitutional powers are Constitutional based on non-Constitutional considerations and partisan bias. He is unfit for the bench, and should be removed.
I wonder how much Bill Clinton was "paid" in donations or 'trades' to inject this number of communist types into our judicial system?
I suspect it was a lot.
Both he and she started outed out with basically nothing and by the time they left the WH they were well heeled.
Politics makes way too many millionaires.
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