The end is\nnear. Well, at the very least, it could be end of the Deferred Action for\nChildhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Actually, the end has been coming for some\ntime, but that is not preventing pro-amnesty activists and lawmakers from\ndreaming up another inconceivable and cynical justification to it alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
United We Dream, an activist pro-immigrant group, is circulating a petition<\/a> demanding that \u201cin the face of a global health crisis, Trump must swiftly and automatically renew DACA status for all immigrant youth whose DACA expires in 2020. In addition, we demand that Trump withdraw his case to terminate DACA from the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why should\nboth the executive and judicial branch ignore their respective duties to\nenforce and interpret existing immigration law? Because, they claim, \u201cDACA\nmeans the difference between weathering through this crisis together or putting\npeople in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The president of FWD.us, the pro-amnesty advocacy group created by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Todd Schulte, has asserted<\/a> that any delays in processing DACA renewals \u201cwould be viewed as the Trump Administration taking advantage of a global health crisis to circumvent the rulings of multiple courts that require USCIS to continue processing DACA renewal applications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rulings of those multiple courts, however, are presently under review by the Supreme Court, which explains why FWD.us has made a similar call<\/a> for the \u201cTrump Admin to extend #DACA<\/a> permits for 2 years and drop their appeal before the Supreme Court so our lives can have some normalcy in these times of panic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like every other federal agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to temporarily close<\/a> to the public. They have shown flexibility<\/a> in making accommodations during this time, but even if they were to automatically extend DACA renewals, the fact remains the program lies in the hands of the Supreme Court, which has remained open for business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, amnesty\nadvocates can continue to dream that they can delay a decision on whether the\nTrump administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act in ending DACA.\nOr they can face the facts laid out by President Obama one year before he\ncreated DACA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCongress passes the law, the executive branch’s duty is to enforce the law,\u201d said President Obama<\/a> during a 2011 Univision town hall. \u201cThere are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order to ignore those mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The end is near. Well, at the very least, it could be end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Actually, the end has been coming for some time, but that is not preventing pro-amnesty activists and lawmakers from dreaming up another inconceivable and cynical justification to it alive. United We Dream, an<\/p>\n