Joel B. Pollack:
President Donald Trump has reportedly decided to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — effective six months from Tuesday, when he will formally announce his decision.
Trump’s decision has, predictably, outraged amnesty activists, and frightened the establishment wing of the Republican Party. But it has also raised alarms among conservatives, who fear Congress could simply legislate amnesty in the next six months.
As frustrating as that may be to those who want to see DACA totally wiped off the books, and every one of its beneficiaries given a one-way bus ticket across the border, letting Congress decide what to do about the “Dreamers” is exactly what ought to happen.
In fact, Congress was poised to do just that in 2012, until then-President Barack Obama decided to ignore the Constitution’s separation of powers and dictate the “Dream Act by fiat” on his own.
Amnesty opponents can take heart from the fact that this Congress seems incapable of passing anything at all. And if, at the end of six months, Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fail to find consensus on a DACA “fix” then it would appear that Trump’s DACA reversal would be the law of the land. That would give opponents of DACA extra leverage — and put the pressure on those who want to accommodate the “Dreamers.”
Another of trumps good decesions was pulling america out of that Paris Accord which would have ruined the nation he wont be playing along as the rest of the world gose to hell in a hand basket
Now we’re going to see if Congress can get its act together for ANYTHING.
Seems they only want to act as an investigative committee-making body.
Legislating is out the window.
This forces those for DACA, the Dems, the GOPe (globalists) to go on the record as voting for or against.
And this ends the multi-state challenge to the illegal executive act of Obama (Mr. Pen&Phone).
Pres Trump is doing this just right.
This while Harvey is still on his plate, North Korea is on the fire, Hurricane Andrew is threatening and a caldera in Yellowstone might blow it all up anytime soon.
Ending DACA clears the way for the deportation of thousands of promising young adults who have never known any other home than the United States of America that they grew up in.
This is wrong on a fundamental moral level. It runs contrary to our deepest national values. This isn’t what America is supposed to be about.
Trump should leave DACA in place, rather than passing the buck to Congress, which almost certainly lacks the political courage to address the issue legislatively. That’s the reason Obama felt compelled to address the problem as he did in the first place.
Trump, of course, became the GOP’s presidential nominee by promoting and exploiting national divisions, intolerance, and anger. He got himself elected in the same negative fashion, and now relies on those same tactics to protect himself from any possibility of a emerging unity of purpose within the GOP. This is essential to extend his political survival, because the most obvious thing his party might suddenly realize is that this guy has got to go.
The most serious clear and present danger with Trump is that he might turn to war as an ultimate distraction. We’ve got this guy in the driver’s seat at one of the most dangerous points in international politics to have come along in years. Our greatest hope could ultimately reside in the possibility that cooler and wiser heads in our own military might not follow ill-considered or impulsive orders of their own Commander in Chief.
@Greg: As a typical liberal, you have no respect for the rule of law. If this was important to the Democrats, they should have passed legislation when Obama held both houses. Obviously, liberals are all talk and whine!
Do you think this list of legislation passed and enacted over a 2-year period was all talk and whine? It certainly wasn’t, on the Democratic Party side.
How does that performance compare with that of Donnie and the Keystone Cops? “Talk and Whine” would better describe republican activity for the past 7 years—including the past 8 months, when they’ve controlled the White House and both Houses of Congress.
Maybe they’ll rise to the challenge and finally get it in gear with immigration law reform.
@Greg:
So you’re saying when a couple from Somalia bring their 10 year old child to the US that they are doing the wrong thing because that child has never known anything but Somalia? Weird thinking. What about a 12 year old girl that was raised into a life of sex slavery? Should she be taken out because it’s ‘the only life she’s ever known’? Shouldn’t all children learn that countries have laws and that they should apply to everyone. Just because their parents chose to break the law and bring them here illegally, is no reason to continue to break the law
So basically you were for Obama violating the law on this and it won’t bother you if Trump does also as long as he’s doing what you advocate. It’s not the presidents job to pass, unilaterally, laws that only congress should pass just because they don’t have the cojone’s to do the right thing.
@Greg:
Despite the huge demand to have a legal president for the last 8 years, no one seemed to get so wound up about it. At least we have an American in the job now.
Native American Council Offers Amnesty to 240 Million Undocumented Whites
@Greg:
Native Americans are smart enough to put such heavy restrictions on their offer no European is going to accept it.
And I notice, the Native Americans did not extend that offer to those who hail from Central and South America, Africa, Asia or the Muslim nations.
Smart.
You’re missing the point entirely, although irony does tend to be lost on the right.
People from Africa, Asia, and Muslim nations have posed little or no problems to Native Americans. Non-Europeans from Central and South America are either part of those groups just mentioned, or are Native Americans.
@Greg: So far as I have been able to determine, there are no ‘native Americans’ in the Americas. From all I’ve been able learn, most or all people living here are descendants of persons that migrated to the Americas from Africa, coming across the Bering Strait area from the Russian area. Later migrants came from European countries after having migrated to Europe from Africa. So, the way I see it, we’re all originally African, some just got here sooner. After checking, I could find no deeds to any of my property that was registered to anyone other than my family either before or since my ancestors originally titled it in the 1700’s. Since these are ‘original titles’ that means no one had claimed that property before my ancestors so I am able to claim ‘Native American owner’ for everything. I understand that some property in North America was titled as early as the 1600’s, but that doesn’t apply to any of my property, so my family was the original owners. No one, since the earth formed, owned or titled my property other than my ancestors my family line has to be considered as Native Americans even though I am of European descent from Africa originally. It seems that very few of the persons, commonly called Indians, are really ‘native Americans” as few of them have any property that was titled to their ancestors prior to 1700.
Ironically, none of the ‘native Americans’ were able to supply
documentation of their ‘original’ claim to property in America, it seems as if they are in actuality, ‘undocumented aliens’. Since my family does have early (1700’s) documentation, I will accept applications from undocumented Native Americans for proper documentation. A $10,000 fee will be sufficient.
Congress has 6 months to do their job, The libs are freaking out and it was Obama that got the dreamers list, addresses ect for deportation if it boils down to that. Like everything he touched he screwed someone.
Best this is handled now, The government kicks cans down the road too much, raise the debt ceiling dont live within your means, open borders, dont take care of your own needy. People now pay more in taxes than they spend on food and clothing, Health insurance costs too much and providers dont have to provide prices prior to services.
In the meantime the dems are raising money on the dreamer issue, and the RINOS are blocking reforms.
Trump is not a king he cannot legislate. We dont want him to usurp that power. It made us crazy when the last President misused his position. Now 10 states will save money fighting DACA and 15 will be laughed out of court.