President Trump Deftly Passes the Buck

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. .