Posted on 02/06/2018 12:18:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly said Tuesday that President Trump is not expected to extend a March 5 deadline for when legal protection and work permits begin to expire for young immigrants known as dreamers raising the stakes for lawmakers struggling to reach a solution.
I doubt very much Trump would extend the program, Kelly told reporters during an impromptu interview at the U.S. Capitol.
He told reporters that he was not so sure this president has the authority to extend it because the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects roughly 690,000 undocumented immigrants was not based on law.
Kellys comments come as lawmakers are trying to craft a plan to grant permanent legal protections to dreamers and resolve other aspects of the immigration system. Kelly also said he would recommend against Trump accepting a short-term extension of the program legislative patch.
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Trump said in a separate tweet that We need a 21st century MERIT-BASED immigration system and added that current family-based legal immigration programs and the diversity visa lottery are outdated programs that hurt our economic and national security.
At the Capitol, Kelly reiterated the administrations position that dreamers are not a priority for deportation presuming they avoid breaking the law.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has said previously that her department would not target dreamers for deportation. But Nielsen said in an interview last month with CBS News that DHS will enforce the law.
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Your question should be: what should Congress do? Answer: they should tell Trump what to do, because that is their Constitutional duty, Trump is just doing the same as he always does, respecting the Constitution, and following the law the best he can considering the law is not prescriptive. As for the judges, appeal them and wait for sanity at the USSC. The USSC will obviously point out the law requires arrest and deportation, the executive cannot ignore that law, and they especially cannot carve out an entire class of exceptions to enforcement.
A nice thing about Trump is he always respects the balance of power and is in this case as in many cases throwing it back to Congress where it belongs. If they fail, then the highest court will tell him to enforce the law. Then he will have no choice, whether he likes dreamers or not.
Best comment on the thread. And a lot of other threads, too.
i was going to post basically the same as your entire post. agree and thanks for posting early. this 1 armed tapping is for the birds
Plenty of known hard criminals to take up ICE’s time and efforts for now - making DACA-in-general folks a priority would be bad politics for now - let the Dems hang by their own petards as the lack of protected status sinks in.
isn't the entire argument these illegals make is that america is their home and the only home they know? so how can you throw into this about the incentive to go home if there is no home home?
i think you are sadly mistaken friend and do not understand what is happening under the guise of daca.
A sensible approach and the administration can honestly say they are not targeting the DACA illegal aliens. The whole game is to get comprehensive immigration reform, for today and tomorrow. If the DemonRats want to be shown to be uncaring for their special "kids" they are on the right track.
When I say "go back home," I don't mean these people will be going back to Make Mexico Great Again or Make El Salvador Great Again. I mean they'll go back home and immediately begin the process to immigrate into the U.S. legally. If someone has a skill and a job offer from a U.S. employer, that should not be hard.
sorry you have totally misunderstood me. i am taking you as saying they will self deport and i am saying no way jose. these bastards are here to stay until you pry them loose and drag them out of here
I’m referring to adult immigrants who are currently registered under DACA on a temporary student visa or work visa. If you’re suggesting that someone who is a college student or is working legally in a decent job or an internship is going to stay in this country just to pick lettuce or work as a landscaper, I’d say you’re wrong about that.
We were talking about DACA. DACA is not a law.
Art of the deal. Read his tweet on this. He is going to stretch to the limits to hold out a reasonable sounding offer that the Democrats are going to reject. Mass hypocrisy being unveiled here.
The art of the deal is going to cost Trump a second term. He was elected to end this madness, not make deals to protect illegals.
I agree that the wall is folly.....cut off their benefits and they will leave..no school, welfare etc...
IMHO, Trump has abandoned his base with the “deal”, and will get the boot in 2020. An open borders dem, probably Hispanic will promise amnesty and sweep into office...and that will be that.
This is the hill to die on..Trump needs to gird his loins, and quit this slow dance.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump give a last-minute extension for dreamers for 30 days. Not endorsing the idea - just would not shock me to see POTUS DJT force Dems to once again go on record to oppose his offer.
I now see little to no chance Dems will go for his deal . Anticipating this, Trump could use it to flail away Libs. No one wields a more deft flail than he
now just go get on your lil daca train with your libtard buddies and shoooo
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