Thursday, January 18, 2018

DOJ seeks help from Supreme Court to end DACA


THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT on Tuesday said it plans to take the rare step of appealing directly to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling that blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.


A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration's decision to end DACA earlier this month. The ruling required the Department of Homeland Security to resume accepting renewal requests from eligible DACA applicants, at least until lawsuits can play out in court. Apparently, the DOJ can't wait for that process.

“It defies both law and common sense for DACA—an entirely discretionary non-enforcement policy that was implemented unilaterally by the last administration after Congress rejected similar legislative proposals and courts invalidated the similar DAPA policy—to somehow be mandated nationwide by a single district court in San Francisco,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Trump declared the end of the DACA program last September and gave Congress until March 2018 to come up with a law that would do the same thing: protect from deportation about 800,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. by their undocumented parents.

Congress' inability to come up legislation threatens to shut down the government on Friday when the lawmakers are supposed to pass a budget.

Democrats say they won't sign off on a budget until a the fate of DACA is resolved. Republicans say any deal for DACA must include funds for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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