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Texas sues to stop DACA [updated: there’s a world more info in the article now]
The Washington Times ^
| May 1, 2018
| Stephen Dinan
Posted on 05/01/2018 2:47:54 PM PDT by jazusamo
Lawsuit could undercut 2012 amnesty, end ongoing legal battles over Trump phaseout
Texas and a half-dozen other states filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the legality of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, opening up a new legal front in the increasingly messy battle over illegal immigration.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in southern Texas, asks judges to rule against the 2012 program that’s granted tentative legal status to more than 800,000 illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Arkansas; US: Louisiana; US: Nebraska; US: South Carolina; US: Texas; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: aliens; daca; dreamers; illegalaliens; lawsuit; lawsuittoenddaca; texas
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posted on
05/01/2018 2:47:54 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: All
The other states involved are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia.
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posted on
05/01/2018 2:52:40 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Thank you Texas, you’ve come to the plate again! What a great state! Hope people moving from California don’t mess it up!
To: jazusamo
This ought to get interesting
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posted on
05/01/2018 2:55:01 PM PDT
by
ducttape45
("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
To: jazusamo
The system is clearly broken. Everyone can sue in any district and get judgements that change laws for the whole country. There is no clear delineation in terms of who can do what. To the extent that there are clear mandates (DACA and immigration being obvious examples) they are ignored by judges without consequence (When was the law judge to be impeached by the Congress?). Yup, the system is definitely broken
To: jazusamo
From your link....
...Texas had threatened the lawsuit last year, saying that it would file if President Trump didn’t end the Obama-era program. Mr. Trump complied, announcing a six-month phaseout.
That phaseout has been blocked by courts who say he cut too many corners.
That flummoxed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who says the original DACA program was illegal in the first place.
“Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization,” Mr. Paxton said in filing the lawsuit. “Left intact, DACA sets a dangerous precedent by giving the executive branch sweeping authority to ignore the laws enacted by Congress and change our nation’s immigration laws to suit a president’s own policy preferences.”
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How is an illegal EO even accepted as law of the land, to begin with???
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posted on
05/01/2018 2:56:18 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
05/01/2018 2:57:45 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation has ended!)
To: LUV W; Texas Fossil
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posted on
05/01/2018 2:57:57 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: Jane Long; El Gato; hocndoc; Squantos; SwinneySwitch; MeekOneGOP; weegee; EQAndyBuzz; ...
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posted on
05/01/2018 3:01:39 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: TrumpisRight
Hope people moving from California don’t mess it up! move to Texas.
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05/01/2018 3:03:48 PM PDT
by
Zarro
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posted on
05/01/2018 3:06:43 PM PDT
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jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Well, what do you know. Republicans can sue too.
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posted on
05/01/2018 3:09:38 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
To: Jane Long
Trump nor Obama never issued a EO for DACA. It was merely policy. Often called Executive action.
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posted on
05/01/2018 3:13:17 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Jane Long
Good question, I’d like to hear the judge’s answer.
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posted on
05/01/2018 3:21:21 PM PDT
by
Rusty0604
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To: Zarro
To: Theoria
Wasn’t it written as a memo? Or, am I confusing this with 0bola’s unaccompanied illegal mostly men invite?
IIRC one of his actions was a memo.
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posted on
05/01/2018 3:25:19 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: Jane Long
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the 'memos' of war".
DHS[Obama admin] put out a memo. Trump had his own memo.
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posted on
05/01/2018 3:28:01 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: jazusamo
To: jazusamo
The unwashed masses are rising up against their betters.
Good.
And sormewhere, a former president of dubious heritage seeths in silent roiling rage at the unraveling of his "legacy".
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posted on
05/01/2018 4:01:40 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" if conceived by Ayn Rand.)
To: Admin Moderator; admin
Thank you for the title update!
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posted on
05/01/2018 4:09:35 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
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