Posted on 09/05/2017 10:49:09 AM PDT by sickoflibs
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denounced President Trump's plan to end the immigration program known as DACA, calling it "shameful...despicable, cruel and heartless."
Pelosi, D-Calif., joined other Democrats and some Republicans in opposing the move to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which is facing a court challenge.
The program allows young people who arrived illegally as children to obtain work permits and some federal benefits. Pelosi called for "an immediate response from Congress," to ensure those in the program are not deported, although there is no indication the Trump Administration will move to deport anybody.
"President Trump's decision to end DACA is a deeply shameful act of political cowardice and a despicable assault on innocent young people in communities across America," Pelosi said in the statement. "Deporting DREAMers means destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of patriotic young people, costing the economy billions and betraying the fundamental values of the American Dream." Among the Republicans opposed to the Trump administration move on DACA is Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
McCain issued a statement Tuesday calling the decision "the wrong approach" to immigration policy, even though he opposed Obama's move at the time to create DACA. "The 800,000 innocent young people granted deferred action under DACA over the last several years are pursuing degrees, starting careers, and contributing to our communities in important ways," McCain said. "While I disagreed with President Obama's unilateral action on this issue, I believe that rescinding DACA at this time is an unacceptable reversal of the promises and opportunities that have been conferred to these individuals."
One day McCain’s for “regular order” and the next, unconstitutional executive orders.
This isn’t being inconsistent. He’s being 100 percent consistent. 100 percent Never Trump.
If it makes America weaker, McCain is for it.
We are calling McLiar’s office every day. He doesn’t care, he despises his constituents, his staff who answer his phones are actively hostile.
Anyone who is following this idiocy should be noticing a pattern here:
1. Democrats who controlled the White House and both houses of Congress in 2009-10 don't have the political will to legislate some leftist policy they claim to support.
2. The jug-eared exchange student from Kenya implements the policy through a blatantly illegal executive order.
3. Republicans run against this in 2010 and regain control of the House. They pass meaningless legislation to overturn it, knowing full well that whatever they pass will be vetoed. They don't do anything to change what the Kenyan exchange student implemented.
4. Republicans run against it again in 2014 and regain control of the Senate. They continue to pass meaningless legislation to overturn it, knowing full well that whatever they pass will be vetoed. They still don't do anything to change what the Kenyan exchange student implemented.
5. A bunch of spineless Republican hacks run in the presidential primary in 2016, telling voters that they'll overturn all of the Kenyan exchange student's leftist executive orders, and work with Congress to overturn all of the destructive legislation the Democrats passed while the Kenyan was in office. "We have the House and Senate; all we need is the White House!" is their rallying cry.
6. Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination, wins the presidential election, and immediately goes about doing all of the things the Republicans had been claiming they wanted to do for years.
7. Establishment Republican pr!cks crawl out of their holes to vote against legislation they'd been supporting for years, and publicly criticizing President Trump for overturning executive orders they claimed they opposed.
And they wonder why Congress has a lower approval rating than a bunch of arsonists.
McCain doesn’t care what you want. He’s going to continue doing the kind of contrary things that hurt his party and the country. Egomaniacs don’t listen to anyone and don’t give a damn what any of us think about him.
I don't recall the power to "confer" anywhere in the Constitution.
Besides, the so-called DACA stands for "deferred action." Guess what? The deferral is up, and action is now being taken.
What makes them think that the deferral was in perpetuity?
-PJ
McCain is a disgrace. Why are the people of AZ not demanding his resignation over health (and stupidity) issues? He is making himself a legacy of manure.
Oppose all they want. Trump won the election. Elections have consequences.
McCain just wants a referral from Pelosi’s plastic surgeon.
with republicans like McCain - who needs democrats. . . . .
There are those words again....Facing a Court Challenge.
Why don’t we just lay-off the Congress and the POTUS and their staffs and let the judges run everything? They do now, and it would be far cheaper.
“If that Dante guy was right, McCain will soon be up to his nose in excrement for eternity with all the other traitors.”
That is only when they get a coffee break, all other times they are relegated to standing on their heads.
The 9th ring is cold.
McCain issued a statement Tuesday calling the decision “the wrong approach” to immigration policy, even though he opposed Obama’s move at the time to create DACA.
Like that matters?
An important deadline is approaching for the Trump Administration. By September 5, President Trump must decide whether or not to repeal President Obama’s DACA (“Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”) executive amnesty for illegal aliens.
The deadline was set by ten States, whose attorneys general (or governor, in the case of Idaho) wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding an end to the illegal amnesty. The States are Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. If DACA is not terminated, the States will take the Trump Administration to court.
Candidate Trump promised during the 2016 campaign that he would end DACA. On August 31, 2016, in Phoenix he correctly described DACA as an “illegal executive amnesty.” And he promised that he would “[i]mmediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution.” It is time to make good on that promise.
The DACA amnesty allows virtually any illegal alien up to the age of 31 (as of June 15, 2012, when it was announced) who claims that he entered the United States before the age of 16 to gain “deferred action” and lawful presence in the United States. The alien also becomes eligible for employment authorization. In practice, today illegal aliens up the age of 36 are getting the amnesty. It’s not limited to “children” as the Left is so eager to pretend. It’s estimated that the DACA amnesty could extend to approximately 1.7 million illegal aliens. More than 886,000 have already applied for, and received, the amnesty.
The Obama Administration attempted to defend the legality of DACA on a flimsy theory that has already been rejected by multiple courts – that “prosecutorial discretion” can be used to confer the benefit of lawful presence on millions of illegal aliens, en masse, without any action by Congress. The theory is ridiculous on its face. Prosecutorial discretion is a decision not to prosecute a specific person based on the evidence at hand; it is not a mass changing of legal status for millions of people.
If the States sue, they will win. As a legal question, it’s not even close. DACA is not illegal for just one reason. It’s illegal for at least five reasons – three violations of federal law and two violations of the United States Constitution:
Federal law violations:
8 USC 1225(b)(2). This statute requires that any alien an ICE officer determines to be inadmissible “shall” be placed in removal proceedings. Congress passed this law in 1996 to stop the “catch and release” policies of the Clinton Administration. Incredibly, DACA orders ICE agents to break this law. In 2012, in the case of Crane v. Napolitano, I represented 10 ICE agents who sued the Obama Administration to stop DACA. Although the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals eventually ruled that the ICE agents didn’t have standing, the district court in the Northern District of Texas had already held that we were likely to succeed on this claim.
The Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Even if there weren’t a statutory barrier to a president issuing the DACA directive, the Department of Homeland Security would still have to promulgate a formal regulation (or “rule”), with notice and public comment, under the requirements of the APA. The Obama Administration violated this federal law as well when it created DACA. The Fifth Circuit already came to this conclusion in Texas v. United States, a case which resulted in an injunction halting the second Obama executive amnesty (which was based on the same theory as DACA).
“Prosecutorial discretion” cannot be used to confer federal benefits. Prosecutorial discretion is a decision not to prosecute; it is not a legally-permissible mechanism for granting lawful presence or the valuable benefit of employment authorization. Federal law lays out the only avenues for obtaining either. And DACA doesn’t follow those avenues. The Fifth Circuit reached this conclusion as well in Texas v. United States.
United States Constitution violations:
The Constitutional Separation of Powers. The granting of the right to remain in the United States, plus employment authorization, to a large number of aliens is a legislative action, not an executive action. The “DREAM Act” legislative amnesty, which DACA mimics, has been introduced and has failed in Congress more than twenty times since 2001. If someday Congress decides to enact the DREAM Act, Congress may do so. But a president may not usurp Congress’s authority, as President Obama did, by imposing the DACA amnesty on the country through executive fiat.
Article 2, section 3, of the U.S. Constitution. This section of the Constitution requires the president to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” The DACA amnesty is an express order not to execute the multiple federal laws that render these aliens unlawfully present. An order not to enforce the law against 1.7 million specially-designated aliens is a clear violation of this constitutional provision.
Any single one of these legal claims is sufficient to torpedo DACA in court. And three have already been given credence by the courts. Attorney General Sessions knows this. As he correctly told the Senate Judiciary Committee in January, DACA is “very questionable, in my opinion, constitutionally.” He is undoubtedly reluctant to defend this blatantly illegal executive amnesty.
The Department of Justice can’t win the case. The Fifth Circuit has already ruled on the central legal question, and that is where the case would be heard. The Trump Administration would lose in court, and the president would lose a significant section of his political base as well. DACA is inconsistent with the rule of law, inconsistent with the president’s own promises, and inconsistent with the president’s principled stand against illegal immigration. It must end.
Kris W. Kobach is the elected secretary of state of Kansas. An expert in immigration law and policy, he coauthored the Arizona SB-1070 immigration law and represented in federal court the 10 ICE agents who sued to stop Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty. In 2017 President Trump named him Vice Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. He is also a candidate for the office of governor of Kansas. His website is kriskobach.com.
The Uniparty is pissed that Trump put a wedge issue with primary voters right in their laps.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
McLame and Pelousy know they don’t have the votes.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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