HOW JUDGE RULES THAT OBAMA-ERA DACA PROGRAM WILL STAND BY AOL! (2695 hits)
For Immediate Release From AOL!
A U.S. District Court judge in the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the Obama-era program offering temporary protected status to a cohort of immigrants brought here illegally as children must remain in place despite efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle it.
Judge John D. Bates excoriated Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's arguments to end the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
" ... The Nielsen Memo offers nothing even remotely approaching a considered legal assessment that this Court could subject to judicial review," Bates wrote. He added, later, "The Nielsen Memo demonstrates no true cognizance of the serious reliance interests at issue here -- indeed, it does not even identify what those interests are ... "
DACA won't stand. This ruling will be appealed and end up in the Supreme Court just like the travel ban, where President Trump will win. The place to solve DACA is in Congress, not the Executive and not the Judiciary.
