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Did Donald Trump just pass the buck to Congress, or
what? What a cowardly way to solve the
problem of the DACAs. Obviously, Trump
plans for the illegal aliens that Obama illegally smuggled into the U.S.,
transported and harbored, called “DACAs,” to get amnesty—but he wants Congress
to persuade the people of the U.S. to swallow dictum without getting any blame
for himself. If the GOP rank and file
let Trump get away with this (The Democrats love it—for it executes the will of
their party—opens borders and grants amnesty for all), then they may as well have
elected Hillary on November 8, 20-16. Reporters are saying that Senators Mitch McConnell
and Chuck Schumer have made a back room deal whereby they essentially are willing to take the heat in
order to help Trump save his image as a law and order president (while Schumer
gloats up his sleeve).
Here is the law showing how POTUS Trump dodged the DACA issue
and is trying to palm off the blame on Congress:
8 USC 1103 (a) “The Attorney General shall be charged with
the administration and the enforcement of this Act [The Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1952 as amended—the Act that our Government presently
operates under] and all other laws relating to the immigration and
naturalization of aliens, except insofar as this Act or such laws relate powers
functions and duties conferred upon the President, the Secretary of State, the officers
of the Department of State, or diplomatic or consular officers: PROVIDED
HOWEVER, that determination and ruling by the Attorney General with respect to
all questions of law SHALL BE CONTROLLING....”
(uppercase letters added for emphasis.) Therefore, only Attorney General Jeff Sessions
can issue legal directives on what to do with the DACAs and the other estimated
20 million illegal aliens in the U.S.
Trump, however, has already taken steps to weaken the image of Sessions
by excoriating him for (wisely) recusing himself from participating in the
investigation of collusion between the Trump Administration and Russia. After
essentially illegally stripping the
Attorney General of his Constitutional authority, Trump has assumed the role of
“decider” with what to do about the
DACAs, but he wants to make it appear that Congress is to blame—for they surely
will “solve the problem” with yet another amensty—the fourth in the past thirty
years. That is the only thing they are empowered to do by Article One of the
Constitution.
8 USC 1103 (a) goes on to describe the duties and authorities
of all Department of Justice employees with regard to the enforcement of the
Immigration and naturalization laws. They are available in their entirety at
the Cornell Law web site. You can read
the law in its entirety and nowhere does it say that Congress has one whit of
authority to enforce immigration laws. That authority lays strictly under the purview
of the President. Like most the politicians in the polluted swamp he says he is
going to drain, Trump is playing a shell game.
So how should this slight of hand by Trump make any thinking
conservative feel about the President’s sincerity
of enforcing immigration laws—the issue that ignited his base during the
election of 2016? Congress can do only
one thing with immigration laws that might make it appear that President Trump
is not shirking his duties: that is to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, especially those
called “DACAs”. Congress cannot deport
anyaone and they never have. That is the President’s exclusive responsibility,
as set forth above in the first paragraph, and his enforcement policies are to be carried
out by the Attorney General whose orders and policies are CONTROLLING.
I have always thought that Trump is the consummate globalist
president. He owns more property abroad
than any president ever, and If he ends
NAFTA, as he promised, he will replace it with something worse, for he has so
much as said so. Before he is finished,
the Democrats will love him, but they will continue to assault him because he
is not a democrat, even if our sovereignty is titally gone by the end of his presidency.
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