Trump Has Right to End DACA, Justice Dept. Tells Supreme Court

ECW · 12:15 AM

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In the legal brief filed by the government on Monday, the Trump administration took issue with that assessment.

They noted that Kirstjen Nielsen, who was secretary of homeland security until April, provided the courts three separate reasons for why the department was no longer going to provide protection to the Dreamers.

The lawyers argued that the department properly was concerned that the program, which was similar to the one for the parents, would be found unconstitutional.

They also noted that “as a matter of policy, D.H.S. wanted to terminate a legally questionable nonenforcement policy and leave the creation of policies as significant as DACA to Congress.” That, they said in the brief, should be reason enough for the termination of the program to stand.

The government’s lawyers also rejected an argument made by the other side that Ms. Nielsen and Elaine Duke, the acting homeland security secretary who preceded Ms. Nielsen and officially terminated the program, were motivated by prejudice.

They said the “allegations are wholly insufficient to show that Secretaries Duke and Nielsen were motivated by racial animus in deciding to rescind a policy sanctioning the ongoing violation of federal immigration law by 700,000 aliens, especially given the serious questions about its legality.”

Lawyers for the groups seeking to keep DACA alive will file their briefs in the coming weeks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/u...aca-trump.html

ECW · 12:16 AM

Is it me or does the government brief seems a little weak.... Just kind of repeating the same thing they did in the lower courts

Also, if the Justice department is questioning the legality of the program in their brief, why would the Supreme Court not rule on the constitutionality also?

jwxie518 · 08-20-2019, 06:57 AM

Let's just get this over with, folks.

Manhattan2017 · 08-20-2019, 09:01 AM

My guess is this will go all the way to the Supreme Court, which will rule in our favor. Anyone with a beating heart would not have the courage to deport the million of us who are already living established lives in the US.
Until then, Trump has no real way of undoing it as it will unleash hell from the public and media.

dtrt09 · 08-20-2019, 09:04 AM

Congress needs to pass the DA and get this waste of taxpayer funds over with.

ECW · 08-20-2019, 09:24 AM

No matter the outcome, they are going to punt it until after the election. I already seeing them extending DACA as part of a continuing resolution. I just don't see how Trump get out of the optics of cancelling DACA 4 months before a national election. It just won't happen

Rogue414 · 08-20-2019, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Manhattan2017

My guess is this will go all the way to the Supreme Court, which will rule in our favor. Anyone with a beating heart would not have the courage to deport the million of us who are already living established lives in the US.
Until then, Trump has no real way of undoing it as it will unleash hell from the public and media.

Brett Kavanaugh.

ECW · 08-20-2019, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Rogue414

Brett Kavanaugh.

Naw, Chief Roberts will come through for us

fl_dreamer · 08-20-2019, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Manhattan2017

My guess is this will go all the way to the Supreme Court, which will rule in our favor. Anyone with a beating heart would not have the courage to deport the million of us who are already living established lives in the US.
Until then, Trump has no real way of undoing it as it will unleash hell from the public and media.

Have you not met a Trump follower?

frbc13 · 08-20-2019, 11:05 AM

Yo, does this mean we is legal? Is we legal yet?

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Trump Has Right to End DACA, Justice Dept. Tells Supreme Court