Posted on 09/02/2017 3:02:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In June, Tennessee’s Republican Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III signed a letter demanding that President Donald Trump end DACA, a program that allows undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children to live and work here legally. Nine other Republican attorneys general, as well as one GOP governor, joined the ultimatum, which informed Trump that if he did not kill DACA by Sept. 5, the coalition would sue to block it in court. Trump says he will announce his decision on Tuesday. On Friday, however, Slatery publicly withdrew his demand and instead urged Trump to keep DACA—and to work with Congress to protect young undocumented immigrants.
Slatery announced his reversal in a letter to Tennessee’s two Republican senators, encouraging them to pass legislation that would codify DACA into law. (President Barack Obama created the program through an executive order.) While Slatery maintained that DACA constitutes illegal presidential overreach, he went on to explain that “[t]here is a human element to this ... that is not lost on me and should not be ignored.” He continued:
Many of the DACA recipients, some of whose records I reviewed, have outstanding accomplishments and laudable ambitions, which if achieved, will be of great benefit and service to our country. They have an appreciation for the opportunities afforded them by our country.
“At this time,” Slatery concluded, “our Office has decided not to challenge DACA in the litigation, because we believe there is a better approach.”
The attorney general joins House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Orrin Hatch in exhorting Trump to maintain a program that, not too long ago, he condemned as unlawful and impermissible.....
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Somebody had a talk with him.
TN Attorney Generals don’t go anywhere. They used to be Democrat party hacks selected by the State Supreme Court. He was the first Republican elected by a GOP majority court, but he was not a Conservative.
Check or did those thousands of FBI files Hillary illegally obtained in the 90’s come in handy!
2 months ago he’s for killing DACA and now reverses? What an ABSOLUTE LOSER.
You know if she’d have done that, she would have been erased. She’s just a two-bit Chicago hillbilly, for God’s sake!
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