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Administration revokes blocked program to protect immigrant parents (Team Trump kills D.A.P.A.)
The Washington Post ^ | 06/15/2017 | Alicia A. Caldwell

Posted on 06/15/2017 8:42:48 PM PDT by MaxistheBest

The Trump administration is formally revoking an Obama-era program intended to protect immigrant parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents from deportation. The Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program was announced by the Obama administration in 2014 but was blocked by a federal judge in Texas after 26 states challenged the program’s legality in federal court. Kelly formally revoked the policy memo that created the program, which mirrored an earlier effort to protect young immigrants in the country illegally from deportation on June 15.

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Homeland Security John Kelly formally revoked a policy memo that created the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program. The revocation came on the fifth anniversary of another effort that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.

The program to protect parents was announced by President Barack Obama in November 2014 but was never fully launched. It was intended to keep the immigrant parents safe from deportation and provide them with a renewable work permit good for two years, but it was blocked by a federal judge in Texas after 26 states filed suit against the federal government and challenged the effort’s legality. Republicans decried the effort at “backdoor amnesty” and argued that Obama overstepped his authority by protecting a specific class of immigrants living in the United States illegally.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; dapa; dhs; immigration; trump; trumpwinsagain; winning
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To: Electric Graffiti

Yeah, but at this time, the kids born here are American citizens. Upon reaching the age of majority, they’ll probably be let back in. We could change the anchor baby law, but because of ex post facto, they’ll probably remain US citizens.


21 posted on 06/15/2017 11:51:36 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Except it’s not a law. It was conjured up out of thin air by the courts. The courts can’t make anyone a citizen. Congress was given sole power of naturalization by the Constitution.

Children born to foreign nationals whether here legally or illegally are NOT U.S. citizens. No matter what the courts say.

Nothing to ex post facto...just deport their asses.


22 posted on 06/16/2017 1:10:32 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: MaxistheBest

I wish everyone would stop using the terms “immigrant parents,” or “undocumented.” These people are ILLEGAL, and thus criminals.


23 posted on 06/16/2017 3:51:52 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Every Saint has a past, Every Sinner has a Future!)
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To: MaxistheBest

Good.

What’s the status of the wall?


24 posted on 06/16/2017 5:32:02 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Electric Graffiti
Peace, Electric Graffiti,

Children born to foreign nationals whether here legally or illegally are NOT U.S. citizens. No matter what the courts say.

Nothing to ex post facto...just deport their asses.

You are absolutely correct. Under the original and plain interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendement, the children of foreign nationals born on U.S. soil are not citizens and never have been. This should be a primary focus of the fight against the criminal invaders flooding into our country. There is no birth Right citizenship for the children of foreign nationals!


James R. McClure Jr.
Jeffersonian Anti-Federalist Democrat

25 posted on 06/16/2017 6:17:36 AM PDT by James R. McClure Jr.
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To: MaxistheBest

Good.

Globalist elites like Soros (and company) wanting open borders; third world immigration; creating a more culturally divided and more clueless society; intolerance of an empowered and armed populace; is all at the real core of why they hate Trump. All the other stuff is BS.

More unneeded immigration is fundamental to leftist grab for more political power and more riches for their Commie leaders.


26 posted on 06/16/2017 6:57:11 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: thecodont

On a tourist resort island in FL. my sister knows a Brit couple who invested in a very successful art-cafe business and also construction.Have resided in FL for over a decade. They had hired an immigration attorney paid him 4K and found out that because of the income reported on their taxes was either too low or high (not clear) somehow they could be at risk of being deported. The woman has an eighty year old mother in the UK that she goes to visit a few times per year. She was told that IF SHE LEAVES the USA she may not be able to return. All her property new 500K home, businesses, etc...would be lost.


27 posted on 06/16/2017 7:04:50 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: MaxistheBest
MAGA!

mirrored an earlier effort to protect young immigrants in the country illegally

The ComPost editor slipped up and let the word "illegally" into the article.

28 posted on 06/16/2017 10:43:50 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Pinkbell
"It’s a sad situation, but ultimately, if people break domestic law, we don’t refrain from enforcing it if they have children."

Call me dim-witted, but I want to rephrase your comment so that I understand it. Please, no offense, but let me know if I'm totally off the mark.

if people break domestic law, we shouldn't (won't?)refrain avoid from enforcing it even if they have children who were born here.

IOW, and I keep repeating this on various posts: REPEAL THE ANCHOR BABY (14th) AMENDMENT! Turn off the benefits of having a kid here, and a lot, if not most, will think twice about sneaking in.

Related article: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-birth-tourism-persists-20161220-story.html

29 posted on 06/16/2017 11:53:56 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (DRAIN THE SWAMP. BUILD THE WALL. EFF THE ACTIVIST JUDGES and Obama.)
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To: James R. McClure Jr.; Electric Graffiti
Under the original and plain interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, the children of foreign nationals born on U.S. soil are not citizens and never have been. This should be a primary focus of the fight against the criminal invaders flooding into our country. There is no birth Right citizenship for the children of foreign nationals
Exactly

There needs to be a thread on the 14th Amendment with all the proofs that it should not be used to make "anchor" babies and "anchor" parents.

30 posted on 06/16/2017 12:42:04 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: fivecatsandadog

My first thought was don’t repeal the 14th

But after giving it some thought, it would be a good idea

It was created for a specific time a certain class of citizens and has no effect on anyone alive today

Like many issues, this has been used for decades to create democrat voters and help turn the USA into a 3rd World country.


31 posted on 06/16/2017 12:46:52 PM PDT by Syncro (Repeal the 14th Amendment!)
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To: MaxistheBest

Has a leftoid “judge” told him he can’t do that yet?


32 posted on 06/16/2017 1:14:28 PM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: moehoward

It’s still 58000 a year, half a million over 10 years. We don’t need any of them or their offspring.


33 posted on 06/16/2017 3:56:54 PM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian)
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To: CottonBall

Assuming they take applications on weekends and holidays and the average holds for the next three quarters, you’d be right.

I wouldn’t bet on either of those assumptions being correct.


34 posted on 06/16/2017 4:27:59 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: ducttape45

“I wish everyone would stop using the terms “immigrant parents,” or “undocumented.” These people are ILLEGAL, and thus criminals.”

i call them invaders.


35 posted on 06/17/2017 6:06:20 PM PDT by IWONDR
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