{"id":134555,"date":"2017-09-05T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134555"},"modified":"2017-09-05T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T00:05:03","slug":"trump-kinda-sorta-punts-daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/05\/trump-kinda-sorta-punts-daca.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump kinda-sorta punts on DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there are serious arguments that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is completely constitutional<\/a>, the program has always felt like a bit of a kludge that Obama felt the need to create through executive fiat due to repeated inaction and arm-flailing whenever Congress got close to any sort of immigration reform.<\/p>\n

Trump’s action, on the face of it, is probably the least-worst thing he could have done (aside from leaving DACA alone): freezing further applications (while allowing for renewals), and setting a time frame of six months before the Administration starts to consider people in the program (whom they happen to have records of, conveniently enough) fair game for deportation (and illegal to work any longer).<\/p>\n

That gives Congress time to tackle putting the program back in place as actual law, which is generally preferable. The question is, will Congress (who has failed to pass similar programs previously) actually, finally, do so. If you’ve listened to the GOP congressional rhetoric — with the exception of xenophobes like Steve King — it sounds like it should be a slam-dunk, with numerous GOP congressfolk telling Trump that DACA is good and should be left alone. Or maybe they were saying that to avoid having him put the hot potato in their<\/i> laps.<\/p>\n

Of course, in the meantime, those people in the DACA program — who were brought to the US by their parents illegally, but while they were still minors, and who have been acting as productive members of society — are now in limbo, not sure what their status will be come next March (not unlike transgender troops). And while Trump said in his statement that current DACA individuals will not be particularly targeted, he’s also said that ICE has been focused on deporting hardened criminals when we’ve seen multiple stories of ordinary folk being dragged off by the agency.<\/p>\n

And even if Congress does pass law to reinstate the program, there’s no guarantee that Trump will sign it, given some of his rhetoric in his announcement.<\/p>\n

Only by the reliable enforcement of immigration law can we produce safe communities, a robust middle class, and economic fairness for all Americans,\u201d Mr. Trump said, calling the DACA program an \u201camnesty-first approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before we ask what is fair to illegal immigrants, we must also ask what is fair to American families, students, taxpayers, and job seekers,\u201d the president added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The implications that DACA folk are making America unsafe, or that they are taking jobs away from Americans who otherwise would be able to have them, manages to be both insulting and slanderous at the same time (and goofy as well, when you consider that these folk are<\/i> parts of American families, and are<\/i> taxpayers).<\/p>\n

And another factor is his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who has never liked DACA, and is now clucking sadly that we can’t have the program because “We cannot admit everyone” (and he’d clearly prefer to admit no one). Trump may well be setting up Congress for a contentious fight over legislation that he has no plans of accepting anyway.<\/p>\n

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\nTrump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act<\/a><\/span>
\nAdministration officials said the roughly 800,000 current beneficiaries of the program will not be immediately affected by what they called an \u201corderly wind down\u201d of the policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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While there are serious arguments that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is completely constitutional, the program has always felt like a bit of a kludge that Obama felt the need to create through executive fiat due to repeated inaction and arm-flailing whenever Congress got close to any sort of immigration reform. 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