Posted on 05/02/2018 9:35:51 AM PDT by jazusamo
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by Texas and six other states may finally result in the long-overdue termination of the DACA program, which was created without legal authority by President Obama in 2012 to allow children brought into the U.S. illegally to temporarily remain here under certain conditions.
The lawsuit does not address the question of whether allowing the roughly 700,000 illegal immigrants protected from deportation under DACA is a good policy or a bad one. Instead, the suit contends correctly that President Obama exceeded his authority under law and under the Constitution to create DACA without the approval of Congress and without taking other required steps.
Whatever the outcome of the suit, the ruling seems certain to be appealed and wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. President Trump announced in September that he wanted to phase out the program beginning in March, but federal judges blocked him from doing so after lawsuits were filed to keep DACA in place.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas, correctly says DACA must be invalidated because President Obama had no legal right to create the program without congressional authorization.
The states contend that if Congress wants to, it has the authority under the Constitution to create whatever program it wants for the illegal immigrants affected by DACA. But the president doesnt have that power acting alone.
This is a critical point. Under the Constitution, the president cant change laws strictly on his own authority just because he thinks such a change is a good idea that will benefit the nation. Congress is a co-equal branch of government and must approve new laws.
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Not overturned, invalidated. Obama NEVER had that power.
That undoes all that DACA has done.
We wouldn’t’ have this if ICE would do their job.
It's worth a try... we've got to do something to stop illegals invading our country. Enough is enough.
(Wasn't that thing with Kanye and Sowell amazing? Loved it.)
Yes, Kanye was absolutely amazing speaking out on Dr. Sowell’s wisdom, he gets it.
If memory serves me correctly, there were even more states that were about to sue over this, before the election. obama even stated that his memo wouldn’t stand up in court, but the Ryan/McConnell never did anything about it. I’m thinking that the State AGs held back, thinking that the President would actually honor his campaign pledge to get rid of DAPA and DACA on Day 1. Sadly, he did not.
Personally, I think he would have been better off letting all the states sue, not challenge any of it, since it was a memo from obama, not even an EO and have the courts toss all of it out. All the anger shifts to the courts and problem is solved, nonetheless.
The four preceding Presidents would not let ICE do their job.
DACA are shielded from enforcement action by Obama’s phony program.
The GOP should have sued in Aug of 2012 when this started and stopped it cold.
They wanted amnesty, too.
Any way they could get it.
Mitch is trying to sandbag Morrisey.
Turtleface is a complete scumbag. If that bastard is trying to sabotage ANY candidate, that’s the candidate to vote for.
Even Obummer himself admitted he didn’t have the authority, yet did it anyway. And the spineless Repukes (McConnell, Ryan, etc.) refused to challenge the illegal action. Because they are also invested in flooding the country with third-worlders.
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