DACA was an executive order of Obama’s that allowed illegals of any age to stay in the US if they came over when they were young.
Most of those people are going to be adults big enough to take their lumps. The average DACA bum would be something like forty years old.
President Obama did not have the power to write law, and immigration law is not the same as enforcement. This was one more of the many ways in which his “I have a phone and a pen” threat to issue laws from the desk was implemented, right between the eyes of the rule of law. Obama’s desk laws are not valid, and are what a tyranny is made of.
There was a right way to do DACA, but that was not it, and now it has been rescinded.
From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
…heartlessly dashing the hopes of 800,000 well-meaning dreamers would be a self-defeating act that would mar America’s image as a beacon around the world. Ryan and McConnell need to rescue more than DACA. They need to rescue the idea of America as a land of compassion.
The only thing that needs rescuing is the rule of law in this country. No President gets to write law from his desk. DACA was an illegal accommodation of illegal immigrants, and it well deserved to be struck down or rescinded. Please remember that Congress did weigh in on this, and declined to enact such a piece of lawlessness. Obama then tried to end-run the Constitution. Kicking it back to Congress is fine, if that is what the administration is doing. So is stabbing the thing and walking quickly away. Let them once again hold the line on the rule of law — no amnesty, no way. Jose.
[edit: I was more or less wrong about the lack of age provision. I was looking at a projection, assuming the thing worked over unknown time to come — but not a valid assumption for the current situation.]



Didn’t ¡Jeb! explain to us that illegal immigration is “an act of love”?
Who?
He’s Jimmy Carter’s younger brother, Brent.
Prison love, maybe.
‘The only thing that needs rescuing is the rule of law in this country.’
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“They need to rescue the idea of America as a land of compassion.”
I thought is was the land of the free and home of the brave?
BDB wrote: “DACA was an executive order of Obama’s that allowed illegals of any age to stay in the US if they came over when they were young.”
But it’s if they claimed to have come over when they were young and nobody really verified anything.
Thus you have people lying about when they arrived or their age on arrival.
Consider:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382483/adult-illegal-immigrants-posing-children-enroll-high-school-ryan-lovelace
It’s worse.
One of the last threads at the bad place I can recall was about all this. I recounted an anecdote someone had told me about a teenage girl who had been brought here illegally at about age two. Supposedly once the INS caught her she was unceremoniously shipped back to Serbia.
Someone quite appropriately asked me for a source, so I took to google. I couldn’t find anything about that particular incident, but I did find others, including a story involving a woman from Eastern Europe who was married to an American citizen and who had three American children.
That particular Dreamer got a long and no doubt expensive legal battle to remain in the US, with her American husband and children.
Meanwhile, as everyone knows, swarms of foreigners with no connection at all to the United States are allowed in to the country, illegally, and remain invisible to law enforcement, even when they show up to collect food stamps or get arrested for drunk driving. As ctlaw notes above, they’re often allowed into schools, where I’ve read elsewhere sometimes they happen to be MS-13 gang members in the US simply to sell drugs to American children.
Somehow I don’t manage to see anything involving the Rule of Law in all this, or even any sort of rational sense. But not having been born last night I think I get it.
Bluntly, that woman (and other examples I found) were targeted because of her skin color, while the myriad other foreigners are allowed to roam free because of theirs.
No good will come of this, for the Rule of Law, or anything else.
Can you tell that to the Lockett? He’s going hard at Hi-pat-ya.
Sure not missing that butt head. Hi-pat-ya is such a trooper…
MLH
Slavery?
He didn’t like that and disparaged all those with wit and the ability to laugh at themselves and this happened:
We should just let them all stay in Jeff Flakes’s house.
That was a most clever comeback. And we all ❤️ you, MLH.