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by Ronn Blitzer | 9:01 am, January 10th, 2018
A federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administrations move to wind down President Barack Obamas DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program was done improperly, and that those undocumented immigrants who already had benefits under DACA could continue to renew them. In his ruling, Judge William Alsup cited a number of sources that backed his decision, including President Donald Trumps own tweets on the issue.
DACA allowed people who entered the United States illegally as minors brought by their parents to receive certain benefits and protections from deportation. Those who received DACA benefits have been commonly known as Dreamers.
In a section of his opinion dealing with public interest factors, Judge Alsup (getting a little snarky) writes, we seem to be in the unusual position wherein the ultimate authority over the agency, the Chief Executive, publicly favors the very program the agency has ended, noting President Trumps own expressed support for Dreamers. Specifically, the judge quoted a September tweet, where Trump said, Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really! . . . Judge Alsup then wrote, For the reasons DACA was instituted, and for the reasons tweeted by President Trump, this order finds that the public interest will be served by DACAs continuation. Basically, hes basing part the courts ruling against the Trump administration on Trumps own supposed support for the other side.
The judge determined that the Trump administrations decision to get rid of DACA was based on the flawed legal premise that DACA was created improperly in the first place. Therefore, he said, the Trump administrations decision could be set aside. Additionally, while the DACA repeal was based on the notion that the program was illegally enacted to being with, Judge Alsup said, determining illegality is a quintessential role of the courts, not the administration. The judge also cited a number of reasons why DACA was indeed permissible.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)lark
(23,147 posts)Of course, he's totally wrong, it's just repugs have decided that law and the constitution don't matter, only stealing all of the money from the poor and giving it all to the rich to spend on themselves only. He thinks he's the dictator of Nazi US and can do as Hitler did to give all power to the fascists and destroy democracy and all who want it.
My new favorite term for der Twitler.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)elias7
(4,026 posts)Eliminate DACA to feed the base, make the Dems give up something to reinstate it. The art of the deal. Cut throat 101.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I'm getting tired of winning.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Gothmog
(145,496 posts)pandr32
(11,605 posts)That would be egg-on-the-face to a chicken-sh*t poser president (and all the GOP sycophants) who uses twitter to make his official statements and one-sided arguments because he is scared of the majority of people and press.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)He threw Dump's words (and tweets) right back at him.
SunSeeker
(51,664 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)Hate it when that happens. Well, not in this case.
bucolic_frolic
(43,259 posts)Trump could unleash the big bamboo of Stable Genius against him!
efhmc
(14,731 posts)Beautifully executed legal citations from the fake but head honcho.