Check this out!! A 33-page Justice Department legal opinion made public JUST HOURS BEFORE Obama spoke concluded that he doesn’t have the legal authority to offer broad deportation relief to parents of so-called Dreamers—people who came to the U.S. illegally as children and won a reprieve from deportation in a program known as DACA that Obama created in 2012. “As it has been described to us, the proposed deferred action program for parents of DACA recipients WOULD NOT BE A PERISSABLE EXERCISE OF ENFORCEMENT DISCRETION, Justice Department attorney Karl Thompson wrote in the Office of Legal Counsel opinion. The opinion also reveals, in a footnote, that Justice Department lawyers informally raised concerns about Obama’s initial 2012 DACA program before it was enacted. Thompson’s legal memo about the new immigration initiatives warns the president against straying into areas untethered to policies or priorities Congress has set through legislation. “The Executive CANNOT , under the guides of exercising enforcement discretion, attempt to effectively REWRITE the laws to match its policy preferences,” Thompson wrote. “An agency’s enforcement decisions should be consonant with, rather than CONTRARY TO, the congressional policy underlying the statutes the agency is charged with administering.” A senior administration official said Thursday lawyers concluded that actions like protection for parents of dreamers were “NOT LEGALLY AVAILABLE to the president, largely because it would be building one set of executive actions upon another. minutemennews/2014/11/doj-found-obama-lacked-authority-take-action-took/
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:36:17 +0000
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