Friday, February 16, 2018

DREAMers Win Their Second Court Case to Preserve DACA...and Probably Guarantee the Program Dies

The judge ruled that no matter that the program is established by a memorandum issued by a former Secretary of Homeland Security, that it does not have Congressional approval, and that is probably is unconstitutional that it would be a shame to throw all these fine young pillars of the Republic out of the country because of mere law.

For the second time in two months, a federal judge has stepped into an intense political fight over immigration policy, issuing an injunction that orders the Trump administration to keep in place the embattled program known as DACA, which protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

The nationwide injunction, issued on Tuesday by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, came one month after a court in California also ruled that the administration needed to spare DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Judge Garaufis's ruling in many ways echoed the one issued by Judge William Alsup of Federal District Court in San Francisco.

Since the Trump administration's decision to end the program, Judge Garaufis wrote, more than 100 DACA recipients a day have been losing their protected status - a number, he noted, that could rise to as many as 1,400 a day once the program officially ends on March 5.

At the same hearing, Judge Garaufis also took a shot at Mr. Sessions, who had rebuked him at a speech in October for an earlier remark the judge had made calling the repeal of DACA "Heartless." Citing the speech, Judge Garaufis said in open court that Mr. Sessions "Seems to think that courts don't get to have their own opinions."

If booting DREAMers throws New York into an economic depression, that is not a concern for a single federal judge.

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/02/15/dreamers-win-second-court-case-preserve-daca...and-probably-guarantee-program-dies/

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