White House Chief of Staff: Trump not expected to extend DACA deadline (Deportation not a priority)

Washington Post ^ | 02/06/2018 | By Erica Werner and Ed O'Keefe

[palmer]

What should Trump do? Arrest a bunch of rogue judges? Got any solutions?

Your question should be: what should Congress do? Answer: they should tell Trump what to do, because that is their Constitutional duty, Trump is just doing the same as he always does, respecting the Constitution, and following the law the best he can considering the law is not prescriptive. As for the judges, appeal them and wait for sanity at the USSC. The USSC will obviously point out the law requires arrest and deportation, the executive cannot ignore that law, and they especially cannot carve out an entire class of exceptions to enforcement.

A nice thing about Trump is he always respects the balance of power and is in this case as in many cases throwing it back to Congress where it belongs. If they fail, then the highest court will tell him to enforce the law. Then he will have no choice, whether he likes dreamers or not.

[little jeremiah]

Best comment on the thread. And a lot of other threads, too.

[eartick]

Just one question. Declaring that DREAMers aren’t a priority for deportation feels a little bit like … executive amnesty, doesn’t it?

i was going to post basically the same as your entire post. agree and thanks for posting early. this 1 armed tapping is for the birds

[trebb]

Plenty of known hard criminals to take up ICE’s time and efforts for now - making DACA-in-general folks a priority would be bad politics for now - let the Dems hang by their own petards as the lack of protected status sinks in.

[eartick]

Most of these DACA immigrants now have work or student visas, and as these expire the immigrants are going to have a big incentive to go back home.

isn't the entire argument these illegals make is that america is their home and the only home they know? so how can you throw into this about the incentive to go home if there is no home home?

i think you are sadly mistaken friend and do not understand what is happening under the guise of daca.

[Sa-teef]

"...What Sec. Neilsen was saying is that ICE will not be proactive with deportations at the moment, but will deport with Law Enforcement contact."

A sensible approach and the administration can honestly say they are not targeting the DACA illegal aliens. The whole game is to get comprehensive immigration reform, for today and tomorrow. If the DemonRats want to be shown to be uncaring for their special "kids" they are on the right track.

[Alberta's Child]

You just gave the Democrat/GOPe argument. The conservative argument for letting them stay here is that the U.S. taxpayer has already paid a lot of money to raise them ... so we might as well keep them here as productive residents if that's what they are.

When I say "go back home," I don't mean these people will be going back to Make Mexico Great Again or Make El Salvador Great Again. I mean they'll go back home and immediately begin the process to immigrate into the U.S. legally. If someone has a skill and a job offer from a U.S. employer, that should not be hard.

[eartick]

sorry you have totally misunderstood me. i am taking you as saying they will self deport and i am saying no way jose. these bastards are here to stay until you pry them loose and drag them out of here

[Alberta's Child]

I’m referring to adult immigrants who are currently registered under DACA on a temporary student visa or work visa. If you’re suggesting that someone who is a college student or is working legally in a decent job or an internship is going to stay in this country just to pick lettuce or work as a landscaper, I’d say you’re wrong about that.

[lakecumberlandvet]

We were talking about DACA. DACA is not a law.

[AFret.]

Art of the deal. Read his tweet on this. He is going to stretch to the limits to hold out a reasonable sounding offer that the Democrats are going to reject. Mass hypocrisy being unveiled here.

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The art of the deal is going to cost Trump a second term. He was elected to end this madness, not make deals to protect illegals.

I agree that the wall is folly.....cut off their benefits and they will leave..no school, welfare etc...

IMHO, Trump has abandoned his base with the “deal”, and will get the boot in 2020. An open borders dem, probably Hispanic will promise amnesty and sweep into office...and that will be that.

This is the hill to die on..Trump needs to gird his loins, and quit this slow dance.

[confederatecarpetbag]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump give a last-minute extension for dreamers for 30 days. Not endorsing the idea - just would not shock me to see POTUS DJT force Dems to once again go on record to oppose his offer.

I now see little to no chance Dems will go for his deal . Anticipating this, Trump could use it to flail away Libs. No one wields a more deft flail than he

[eartick]

who said anything about effin lettuce? do you have a reading and comprehension problem?

now just go get on your lil daca train with your libtard buddies and shoooo

[Alberta's Child]

It's not all 800,000 of them, but this is not going to be a rare situation. I'm not making this sh!t up, dude.

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