Bozo to congress: If you want DACA then make it yours

Trump Ends DACA Program, No New Applications Accepted

A long bomb with a hot potato, you might say.

Short story, applications for legal status under the program will no longer be accepted, but people already in the program whose status will expire before March 5 of next year can renew for two years.

And then everybody's legal status eventually expires and these folks are subject to arrest and deportation.

Unless Congress changes our immigration laws in the meantime.

Hmm.

Is that a promise not to veto a congressional renewal of DACA, or something like enough?

Note the Trumpist nonsense out of Jeff Sessions' mouth about illegals "taking our jobs", though this is hardly a real problem in a time of full or nearly full employment when American industrial and business leaders are saying they need the Dreamers because they have jobs they can't fill.

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced Tuesday it would wind down DACA, putting in place a phased termination plan that would give Congress a six-month window to pass legislation that could eventually save the Obama-era program that allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain in the country.

Under the plan announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Trump administration will stop considering new applications for legal status dated after Tuesday, but will allow any DACA recipients with a permit set to expire before March 5, 2018, the opportunity to apply for a two-year renewal.

In his remarks, Sessions repeatedly referred to DACA as unconstitutional and criticized it as "unilateral executive amnesty." He said it "yielded terrible humanitarian consequences" and had "denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same jobs to go to illegal aliens."

"We are a people of compassion and we are a people of law. But there is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws," Sessions said.

"The compassionate thing is to end the lawlessness, enforce our laws, and, if Congress chooses to make changes to those laws, to do so through the process set forth by our Founders in a way that advances the interest of the nation," he continued.

Some 800,000 people came out of hiding and actually registered with the government to participate in DACA.

If DACA is not renewed those registration lists become handy roundup lists, and people will be regarding the whole thing as a long con to trick these illegals into walking into a trap.

Several people have pointed out that divisions within the GOP will be exacerbated by them being hit with this task and the GOP will not be able to deal with this in a way that protects the Dreamers on its own.

The party will not be able to unite behind that, and very possibly there will not be enough GOP support to enable Democratic supporters to get this done.

Expect another train wreck.

On MSNBC right now (1340 hrs EDT) Craig Melvin is explaining that DACA was rejected by congress more than a dozen times and taking the view that Obama then unconstitutionally did what congress had repeatedly refused to do.

Trump and the GOPsters who complained about that were and are right, on that view.

MSNBC just now interviewed a 20-something young woman who came here at 2 months old with her parents from Mexico and has lived here ever since.

Her husband is about to be deployed to Afghanistan.

And now what happens to her?