In an effort to help nearly one million illegal aliens living and working within the United States, the federal government is being accused of ignoring a federal court order by defiantly helping illegals who benefit from the DACA program.
Back in 2012, President Barack Obama unveiled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, to help illegal aliens who were brought to the U.S. by their parents. His announcement protected those illegal aliens from deportation by ICE on the premise they did not cross into sovereign U.S. territory as adults willfully breaking the law.
DACA, however, was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in 2021, whose order froze the program from accepting new applicants after approximately 700,000 are in the program. That 77-page ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen found the program exceeded the federal powers of Obama and the Dept. of Homeland Security, which oversees it.
Even though a federal appeals court could uphold that decision in coming weeks, DHS announced in August it has issued a 453-page “final rule” effective October 31 to “preserve and fortify” DACA policy in the U.S. That same announcement from DHS even cites the 2021 federal court ruling but the federal agency insists it can grant DACA renewal requests because the injunction by Judge Hanen has been partially stayed.
The federal government’s appeal is awaiting a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals but that decision is expected to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says DHS created a whopping 453 pages of “bureaucratic regulations and rules” for a program that is likely unconstitutional and illegal.
“President Obama said on 22 occasions, before he created DACA back in 2012,” Mehlman says, “that he didn’t have the constitutional authority.”
A fact-checking article about Obama and DACA admits the former president stated on numerous occasions federal laws prevented him from taking action, but Obama justified DACA by stating its purpose was to “prioritize enforcement” and to stop “chasing after these young men.”
In 2017, during the one-term Trump administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced DHS was ending the DACA program. That announcement was overturned in 2020 by a 5-4 ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court that said the Trump administration had failed to follow “procedural requirements” that require a “reasoned explanation” for such action.
According to Mehlman, the lawlessness behind Obama’s executive order represents a bigger problem for the rule of law in the United States.
“This is symbolic of a much larger problem here in the United States: We are moving away from a constitutional republic to dictatorship in four-year increments,” he insists, “either in executive orders or policy memos or regulations that completely contravene laws that were passed.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
We proudly thought we were getting our first black President, and just ended up with a Saul ALinsky Clone. Just think what great real improvement things could have been done for the African American communities, had a natural born MAGA minded black American been elevated to President instead of this social divider and breaker of Constitutional laws that set the precedent for his VEEP-Creep Biden to image and follow in his footsteps in executive orders what the prior Supreme Court was too timid to correct in law. Let’s see just what this new aligned court is able to step in and correct instead of just steeping in it.
This administration and most importantly the entrenched bureaucracy have shown themselves to be no respectors of The Constitution, the Court or the rule of law, this is a most grievous situation. On one hand they demand total fealty to the dictates of executive orders while finding no compelling reason to enforce existing and duly passed laws.
As i’ve often warned.. COURTS can make their calls all they want. WHAT THEY LACK though is the power to ENFORCE THOSE CALLS… Till that changes, i fear courts will CONTINUE TO BE IGNORED by the left..
This kinda sound like the tinkerbell Barrack Obama is still directing the policies of the White House and his butt buddy the corrupt, demented, puppet president Joe Biden.
Jul 8, 2014, Obama request for $3.7 billion to address the border crisis “is so much smoke and mirrors,” legislators, law enforcement and other federal officials said. The bulk of the money is earmarked for resettlement rather than for removal and border enforcement. Out of the White House’s $3.7 billion request, $1.8 billion, or about 49% of the entire supplemental request, would go to HHS for resettlement of illegal minors and entire family units, including adult men and women. Funds would be provided “for acquisition, construction, improvement, repair, operation and maintenance of real property and facilities” According to internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents, 47% of the adults subject to expedited removal would be relocated and resettled in the U.S.
The administration’s supplemental request also includes a “general provision” by which it would be allowed to move around as much as 30% of the funding as they choose. The Department of Justice (DOJ) would be given $15 million to hire attorneys to defend unaccompanied alien children against deportation in removal proceedings before an immigration judge and $1.1 million would be given to DOJ for “immigration litigation attorneys.”
Does this sound like Obama wants to secure the border or to send these illegal immigrants home?
Well if a criminal cannot benefit from writing a book while in jail then why should a criminal be allowed to benefit by his children being allowed to stay here after committing his crime?
Makes no sense and emotions are trying to override the laws.
Either fix it in our legislature or deport them. Sorry they lost the ability to speak their language while languishing here. Stop with twisting the great black presidents command and do it legally.
NOR should the parent(s) be allowed to stay either.
THAT IS WHY WE need to ELIMINATE the 14th amendment, especially the “Birthright Citizenship” Clause…
That’s how it is done by these corrupt liberals. Just ignore the court rulings you don’t like. There will come an accounting and they aren’t going to like it so
AND whom’s gonna give them “that accounting”?