{"id":13560,"date":"2017-01-31T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:02:15","slug":"trump-to-acting-ag-youre-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/01\/31\/trump-to-acting-ag-youre-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Acting AG: You\u2019re Fired!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9839\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9839\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9839\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5439999805_474811d69f_b-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5439999805_474811d69f_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5439999805_474811d69f_b-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5439999805_474811d69f_b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5439999805_474811d69f_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5439999805_474811d69f_b-104x69.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before pursuing the GOP nomination for president, Donald Trump was well-known, for among many reasons, as the host of the hit television show <i>The Apprentice<\/i>. On the show, people compete to become the next business tycoon and each week Trump would eliminate a contestant with the blunt phrase, \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d Less than two weeks into the Trump administration, he has brought his catch phrase to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates\u2014an Obama holdover until Sen. Jeff Sessions is confirmed\u2014instructed Department of Justice (DOJ) personnel not to enforce Trump\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-1-31-2017#1\">executive order<\/a> on national security, which included a temporary refugee ban. Justifying her refusal to abide by the executive order, Yates said, \u201cAt present, I am not convinced that the defense of the Executive Order is consistent with [my]responsibilities nor am I convinced that the Executive Order is lawful.\u201d Hypocritically, Yates, who has been at DOJ for many years, never voiced her opposition to President Obama\u2019s unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) amnesty programs\u2026 even after the courts ruled against the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump responded quickly and removed Yates from office. In a statement, the White House pointed out that \u201cThis order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.\u201d In the same press release, the White House announced that Dana Boente would immediately begin serving as Acting Attorney General. Boente said, \u201cI am honored to serve President Trump in this role until Senator Sessions is confirmed. 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On the show, people compete to become the next business tycoon and each week Trump would eliminate a contestant with the blunt phrase, \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d Less than two weeks into<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/01\/31\/trump-to-acting-ag-youre-fired\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":9839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1513,1450,4,1478],"tags":[1499,852,746,575],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18884,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions\/18884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}