State Attorneys General To Trump: Either You End This Dreamer Nonsense Or We Will
Posted at 12:00 pm on June 30, 2017 by streiff Two weeks ago, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly pulled the plug on the Obama brain-fart called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). This was an extra-legal and illegal program that gave persons who claimed to be the parents of people who claimed to have been brought to the US illegally as children a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card in their dealings with immigration enforcement officials.
While this was welcome, it was also pre-ordained. In 2014, Texas and 25 other states sued the federal government over the policy. A federal judge issued an injunction which was upheld by the Fifth Circuit (let me here reiterate my opposition to the obvious insanity of a a singe federal judge or federal Circuit Court claiming the authority to make a ruling which is binding on the US government in toto. This is wrong, it is insane, and the Founders never contemplated any federal judge having that authority). The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. So DAPA was essentially on life support inside an iron lung when Kelly decided to rescind the program.
A larger problem is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). When Kelly announced the DAPA decision he said no decision had been made on DACA. DACA represents a much more sympathetic demographic than did DAPA. Allegedly, DACA participants were brought to the US as children and have lived here and are culturally American and yet at risk of deportation. Getting rid of DACA by executive action would be a public relations nightmare that would hurt the administration with a majority if Americans. The flip side to that is that as long as the Executive branch is willing to go ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ on the 600,000 or so people covered, leaving them perpetually on the fringe of society, Congress is clearly unwilling to take the heat of acting.
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http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/06/30/state-attorneys-general-trump-either-end-dreamer-nonsense-will/
