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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When o when will the Trump administration stop ceding their authority to the courts.
This is so farking absurd.
This is now a national emergency Where the hell was Kavanaugh and Gorsuch? SHUT DOWN THE BORDERS!! It is absurd that Obama executive order are observed and Trump
‘s are not. We will not tolerate THAT! THIS IS COMING TO A VIOLENT END, I FEAR.
Seems our optimism that a non-Hillary-appointed SCOTUS would be our savior was slightly misguided.
Please, folks, consider that this is an NBC “story” so may well be meant to MISLEAD/DEMORALIZE. Don’t let them succeed.
“Daca amnesty will turn the country blue forever “
That’s a fact. The dems salivating...they are so close to never having to worry about elections again. The end of America as we know it. A thousand years of darkness.
DACA is a tax after all... (Chief Justice John Roberts)
If President Trump just ends it now will it be 10 months before SCOTUS addresses it?
Roberts won’t vote to uphold Trump, and the four real conservative justices won’t vote to hear the case if they don’t have a majority.
It will have to wait until Ginsburg dies.
So was this done by a vote of the nine justices or did Roberts decide on it? i.e does Roberts have the same power as Mitch McConnell and decide what they will rule on?
So Trump can’t STOP doing an illegal action started by the president before him...
Got it...
“Where the hell was Kavanaugh and Gorsuch?”
Always felt hinky about both of ‘em. They’re too metrosexual, airy-fairy for me. (Where have all the good men gone?)
That’s what I think Pres. Trump should do when one of these liberal judges puts the kabosh on his executive orders. Tell the judge we will continue to enforce that executive order until SCOTU rules on it.
I am afraid you were right. All this feel good was a bunch a crap.
Ducking their duty again, like they did with the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
The Kenyan from Indonesia had not legal authority to start DACA (assuming he was legitimate, which I do not)
The Supreme Court is made up of 9 ignorant jackasses and we put a few of them in the Court. The entire system is driving America to a dictatorship under control of communists Democrats and RINOs.
Excellent idea! Would Trump have the gonads to tell the Courts and the communists Democrats he will no longer hold up orders based on pure communist crap.
“I am afraid you were right. All this feel good was a bunch a crap.”
AND... I have a real bad feeling about Barr.
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