The Supreme Court will decide the fate of DACA — also known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — this fall, according to National Review.
In a strange twist, immigration activists are suing President Donald Trump and his administration to make him keep acting illegally.
Yes, that’s right. DACA was an illegal action by President Barack Obama — a total executive overreach that prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from deporting over 1 million people who came to the U.S. illegally because they were children when it happened.
Quid pro no
DACA has been a point of contention between Trump and the Democrats since at least 2018, but not for the reason many Democrats think.
Trump would actually like to legalize many of the provisions of DACA. He just wants to do it the right way, through Congress passing a law and him signing it, rather than through the continuation of an executive order that never should have been allowed in the first place.
Back in 2018, Trump attempted to do a very public quid pro quo with Democrats that would have put an end to any attempts to deport the so-called “Dreamers” — illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children with their parents, most of whom don’t remember any other way of life but the American way — in exchange for border wall funding to keep more children from being brought into the country.
But of course, Democrats would not agree to fund the border wall, and DACA was a casualty of the inability to make a deal. Insistent on denying Trump a win before the midterms, Democrats were more than happy to jeopardize the fate of the Dreamers they pretend to care about in order to deny Trump his border wall funding until after the election.
But let’s not kid ourselves. Democrats didn’t think they were hurting the Dreamers — they knew they could try to use the courts to get what they wanted out of the situation. They saw the perfect opportunity to go for their globalist agenda of open borders and amnesty for those already here illegally, so they did it.
It’s actually working pretty well for them — except for Trump’s pesky agreements with Mexico, Guatemala, and other Central American countries to keep would-be immigrants in other countries while they try to get asylum. And now, the conservative-leaning Supreme Court will decide once and for all if DACA was ever an appropriate use of executive power.
Deferred action until when?
Previous deferred action programs did happen, but the circumstances were much different. The programs were usually put in place after a disaster or when immigrants were trying to change their status from temporary to permanent.
It only makes sense that if Congress wants to just make DACA a law, they should do so. Democrats are unlikely to get much resistance from Republicans, including Trump, if they are reasonable in how they go about it and don’t load up the bill with a bunch of ridiculous nonsense trying to liberalize immigration.
Thankfully, Trump actually understands how the government is supposed to work and isn’t trying to get around it just to get what he wants. He wants to do DACA the right way — and keep executive overreach in check.
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