Justice Department won't defend DACA in Texas lawsuit

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Nicole Chavez, CNN

Updated 6:27 AM ET, Sat June 9, 2018

(CNN) - The Justice Department won't defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in a federal lawsuit that Texas and six other states filed last month challenging the constitutionality of the program.

The DOJ argued in a legal filing late Friday that the DACA policy is unlawful and is "an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws."

The DOJ's filing was in response to a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on behalf of seven states to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The states argue that former President Barack Obama's initial creation of DACA in 2012 violated the Constitution and federal law.

The states challenging DACA are Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/09/politics/daca-lawsuit-texas/index.html

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1. That shouldn't be a surprise

With trump and the GOP doing everything they can to hurt them now , and after he stated the opposite. The majority want them able to be legal by a overwhelming n, numbers, so Nov. they'll just help turn both Houses in Congress from doing this to them.

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2. And also won't defend the ACA either! More reasons to get these repugs out of office! nt

[Igel]

3. Because he won't defend the laws?

Or because he won't defend "our" laws, like the ACA and DACA?

Oh. Wait. DACA isn't a law, or even a regulation. It's just an agency's codification of prosecutorial discretion, deciding a large set of instances when enforcement personnel are instructed to not actually uphold the law, with a mechanism set up to get those so "discreted" out of a kind of limbo.