Thursday, January 11, 2018

Liberal Federal Judge Says President Cannot End DACA


Tuesday, during a historic publicly televised meeting between the President and members of both the House and Senate, President Trump reiterated his desire to pass a bill concerning DACA but that must include a border wall and the end of chain migration and lottery for immigrant visas.

During that meeting, Senator Dianne Feinstein asked the President if he would consider signing a “clean DACA bill” and work on the other things at a later time. It seemed that the President didn't quite understand that a “clean bill” was a bill that was DACA only, without the things the President wanted in the bill. He initially agreed that a clean bill would be OK. But did he really not understand it? One never knows with Trump.

A Republican explained Feinstein's request and the President and he immediately reversed what he said, telling all attendees that the wall, chain migration and the lottery must be included in the bill.

Feinstein knew what she was trying to do. She wanted a clean bill to be passed so the Democrats could get what they wanted on DACA and then refuse to negotiate the other things after that happened. Why would they if they already got what they wanted? The same thing happened to Ronald Reagan after he granted amnesty to illegals in 1986 with a promise from Congress to secure the border. They never did.

Nice try, Senator. But the President is not falling for it. Either work with the President and the Republicans to come to an agreement or forget the entire thing.

In other news, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that President Trump cannot end Barack Obama's Executive Amnesty Executive Order. Apparently the judge doesn't quite understand that just at in the case of immigration, the President has full authority to end an Executive Order at any time, just because he's President. Federal judges cannot change that – regardless of how they feel about it. They can rule a new Executive Order as unconstitutional, as happened to President Obama, but they can't stop him from ending and Executive Order since the order is not law but the whim of a President.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the DACA order in 2015. The case went to the Supreme Court and the court, having only eight members at the time, was split four to four.

The DACA Executive Order was an illegal end run around Congress anyway. Congress refused to pass a bill concerning those covered under DACA so President Obama decided to legislate from the Oval Office, which he admittedly did not have the authority to do. President Trump has the right and the authority to end that program. And this judge really should understand that.

These liberal federal judges who prove regularly that they are nothing but obstructionists need to be removed from the bench. The Constitution gives the President of the United States certain authorities and he doesn't have to ask federal judges if he has their permission to legally perform his job. Those judges who rule against the rule of law for political reasons should not be allowed to remain on the job.

The President's attorneys will appeal this decision to the Supreme Court and once again the liberal district judges will be shut down. But in the meantime they're just wasting the President's time.

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