Michael Barone: Can Trump and Democrats make a deal on immigration?
by Michael Barone | Sep 7, 2017, 12:01 AM
Can President Trump and the Republican-majority Congress make a deal? That's a question raised by the announcement that the administration will end the DACA program in six months, providing legal status to illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children and who don't have serious criminal records and are working or in school or the military.
Trump is on strong legal ground. Former President Barack Obama established DACA in 2012 by executive order, even though (as he had earlier explained) the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the authority to set policy on immigration and naturalization.
Moreover, Obama's 2014 DAPA executive order, giving legal status to some 4 million parents of legal residents, has been ruled invalid by federal courts and the Supreme Court has blocked its enforcement. Ten state attorneys general have been threatening to challenge DACA on identical grounds.
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