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Judge Carolyn Dineen King, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, repeatedly pressed Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller on an argument that the states suing Obama did not want to give immigrants the legal ability to work — even if they were unlikely to be deported.
“You’re not contesting the aliens’ ability to stay here. They can stay,” King told Keller. “What you don’t want them to be able to do is work.”
Keller also insisted to King at one point that a president did not have power to grant deferred action even to individuals – a point Keller later corrected.
The Texas solicitor general contended that executive actions would have a financial impact on the states, since they would have to shoulder the costs for issuing drivers’ licenses, as well as health care and education.
Keller also referred to Obama’s comments in November that “I just took action to change the law” – a phrase that the White House later clarified as Obama speaking colloquially.
“And that’s what precisely DAPA did,” said Keller, referring to the shorthand for the program, Deferred Action for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans. “And the reason it did is because without DAPA, there is no statute or rule that allows the executive to grant lawful presence to the 4.3 [million] potential DAPA beneficiaries.”
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I've listened to the entire recording - and the issue the two conservative judges have and crux of TX argument is DAPA, not the DACA extension. The DACA extension should be allowed to proceed for now, covering aged out DREAMERS and younger ones, because DACAx is simply an update/modification of the
existing DACA program, not an entirely new program . as is DAPA. This is all awful; I cannot believe that no one at DHS or DOJ could have foreseen the issues that have put this in jeopardy.