U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump over 'Dreamers' immigrants

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump over 'Dreamers' immigrants

By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung

 

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, U.S., November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump, requiring his administration to maintain protections he has sought to end for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.

 

The justices refused to hear the administration's appeal of a federal judge's Jan. 9 nationwide injunction that halted Trump's move to rescind a program that benefits immigrants known as "Dreamers" implemented in 2012 by his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.

 

The protections were due to start phasing out in March under the Republican president's action, announced in September.

 

Under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, roughly 700,000 young adult, mostly Hispanics, are protected from deportation and given work permits for two-year periods, after which they must re-apply. Congress so far has failed to pass legislation to address the fate of the "Dreamers," including a potential path to citizenship.

 

San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled last month that the government must continue to process renewals of existing DACA applications while litigation over the legality of Trump's action is resolved, prompting the administration's unusual move to bypass a federal appeals court and take the matter directly to the Supreme Court.

 

"The DACA program -- which provides work permits and myriad government benefits to illegal immigrants en masse -- is clearly unlawful.

 

The district judge's decision to unilaterally re-impose a program that Congress had explicitly and repeatedly rejected is a usurpation of legislative authority," White House spokesman Raj Shah said.

 

"We look forward to having this case expeditiously heard by the appeals court and, if necessary, the Supreme Court, where we fully expect to prevail," Shah added.

 

The administration argued Obama exceeded his powers under the Constitution when he bypassed Congress and created DACA.

 

Alsup ruled that the challengers, including the states of California, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota and Obama's former homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano, were likely to succeed in arguing that the administration's decision to end DACA was arbitrary.

 

In a brief order, the Supreme Court justices said the appeal was "denied without prejudice," indicating they will maintain an open mind on the underlying legal issue still being considered by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The justices also said they expect the lower court to "proceed expeditiously to decide this case."

 

Trump, meeting with governors at the White House, took a swipe at the appeals court, which has ruled against him in other key cases, as well as the broader American judiciary.

 

"Nothing's as bad as the 9th Circuit," Trump said.

 

"It's really sad when every single case filed against us is in the 9th Circuit. We lose, we lose, we lose and then we do fine in the Supreme Court," Trump added. "But what does that tell you about our court system? It's a very, very sad thing."

 

'FULLY LEGAL'

 

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, called the administration's bid to bypass the 9th Circuit "unusual and unnecessary" and said the DACA program is "fully legal. "For the sake of the Dreamers who help make our economy and our state strong, the rescission of DACA should not be allowed to stand," Becerra said.

 

Immigration activists said they were grateful the Supreme Court gave current DACA recipients more time, but said many young immigrants are still left unprotected.

 

"We need a permanent solution now," said Greisa Martinez, a DACA recipient who works in Washington with the immigrants' rights group United We Dream. "This back and forth on DACA and the legislative process has created a crisis in our community."

 

The DACA dispute is the latest major case brought to the Supreme Court for its consideration arising from Trump's immigration policies.

 

The justices are due to hear arguments in April on the legality of his latest travel ban order barring entry to people from several Muslim-majority nations.

 

Trump's move to rescind DACA prompted legal challenges by Democratic state attorneys general and various organizations and individuals in multiple federal courts.

 

On Feb. 13, a second U.S. judge issued a similar injunction ordering the administration to keep DACA in place. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn acted in a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs including a group of states led by New York.

 

Judges Alsup and Garaufis did not say that the administration could not at some point end the program, only that there was evidence it did not follow the correct procedures in doing so.

 

The rulings allow those who had previously applied for protections and whose two-year status was soon to expire to apply beyond the deadline set by the administration in September. The original plan put on hold by the court rulings said that only those who re-applied by October and whose status was due to expire by March 5 could re-apply.

 

The administration is not processing new applications.

 

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung; Additional reporting by Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton in Washington and Mica Rosenberg in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-02-27

[Langsuan Man]

source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/05/05/trump-has-been-sued-times-federal-court-since-inauguration-day/E4AqZBYaKYHtzwfQ3k9hdM/story.html

 

Tired of winning yet Mr. Trump ?

[mike324]

1 hour ago, Langsuan Man said:

source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/05/05/trump-has-been-sued-times-federal-court-since-inauguration-day/E4AqZBYaKYHtzwfQ3k9hdM/story.html

 

Tired of winning yet Mr. Trump ?

he has been sued thousands of times in the past over fraudulent business practices,  this guy has a thick skin. No decent human being would be sued so many times for fraudulent business practices.

[spidermike007]

Tiny DT- Continuing the trend of decreasing the quality of life, for the average America. Moving America backwards. Re-populating the swamp with his own brand of alligators and crocodiles. The art of I cannot make a deal to save my life!

[riclag]

It's in the hands of the Congress

[riclag]

4 hours ago, mike324 said:

he has been sued thousands of times in the past over fraudulent business practices,  this guy has a thick skin. No decent human being would be sued so many times for fraudulent business practices.

 PT is being sued and  DT businesses are being sued.Johnson and Johnson has been sued thousands of times. PT has been sued many times for his dismantling of past administration policies while instituting  new policies..   

Edited February 27, 2018 by riclag

[mike324]

38 minutes ago, riclag said:

 PT is being sued and  DT businesses are being sued.Johnson and Johnson has been sued thousands of times. PT has been sued many times for his dismantling of past administration policies while instituting  new policies..   

Being sued for what reason is what matters, Trump is being sued for fraud and refusing to paid for work done by contractors. Not like Johnson and Johnson being sued for product quality issues. 

[dunroaming]

56 minutes ago, riclag said:

 PT is being sued and  DT businesses are being sued.Johnson and Johnson has been sued thousands of times. PT has been sued many times for his dismantling of past administration policies while instituting  new policies..   

That excuses everything then......  When will the Trump apologists wake up?

[riclag]

26 minutes ago, mike324 said:

Being sued for what reason is what matters, Trump is being sued for fraud and refusing to paid for work done by contractors. Not like Johnson and Johnson being sued for product quality issues. 

I agree being sued for a reason matters.Apparently being sued 3500 times prior to June  2016 didn't  discourage many Americans for voting him  in a democratically elected POTUS. 

Edited February 27, 2018 by riclag

[riclag]

28 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

That excuses everything then......  When will the Trump apologists wake up?

I and many others respect America's Constitution  and Elections.He is the President and while he is the President I will honor and respect that. No different than past Presidents.Nothing to do with waking up.

Edited February 27, 2018 by riclag

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, riclag said:

I and many others respect America's Constitution  and Elections.He is the President and while he is the President I will honor and respect that. No different than past Presidents.Nothing to do waking up.

No.

There is a LOT different with this president.

Most decent Americans totally get that.

The office deserves respect. 

But this man has dragged the presidency into the gutter.

He doesn't respect the constitution.

His rhetoric is more of an authoritarian dictator. He calls the press the enemy of the people. 

So this man deserves no respect, and constant, vigilant efforts of protecting the American institutions that have any chance of checking this madness. 

[Jingthing]

22 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

That excuses everything then......  When will the Trump apologists wake up?

Never. They are a lost cause. Americans need to energize the majority that are not under his toxic control. 

[riclag]

24 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

No.

There is a LOT different with this president.

Most decent Americans totally get that.

The office deserves respect. 

But this man has dragged the presidency into the gutter.

He doesn't respect the constitution.

His rhetoric is more of an authoritarian dictator. He calls the press the enemy of the people. 

So this man deserves no respect, and constant, vigilant efforts of protecting the American institutions that have any chance of checking this madness. 

If your American you have the right to vote him out.One third of Americans share his opinion that the press is the enemy of the people.Many Presidents have been ridiculed and publicly humiliated by the press , people and the world.Nothing new

Edited February 27, 2018 by riclag

[dunroaming]

26 minutes ago, riclag said:

I and many others respect America's Constitution  and Elections.He is the President and while he is the President I will honor and respect that. No different than past Presidents.Nothing to do with waking up.

Wow!  That is really worrying when you cannot distinguish between one person or another because of their "elected" position.  Do you really just follow blindly?   Jingthing sums it up exactly.

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, riclag said:

If your American you have the right to vote him out.One third of Americans share his opinion that the press is the enemy of the people.Many Presidents have been ridiculed and publicly humiliated by the press , people and the world.Nothing new

It's a shame that so many lack the basic understanding of how rhetoric like that is closely associated with the worst murderous dictators in world history. Rhetoric like that is deeply un-American and anti-democratic. 

Edited February 27, 2018 by Jingthing

[riclag]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

It's a shame that so many lack the basic understanding of how rhetoric like that is closely associated with the worst murderous dictators in world history. Rhetoric like that is deeply un-American. 

Rhetoric like that is freedom of speech. It is a constitutional  right.It is deeply American. 

[dunroaming]

21 minutes ago, riclag said:

If your American you have the right to vote him out.One third of Americans share his opinion that the press is the enemy of the people.Many Presidents have been ridiculed and publicly humiliated by the press , people and the world.Nothing new

Humiliated or held to account?  Overwhelmingly the world's media ridicules Trump and what he says and so do most of the people in the world too.  But in your world you feel that the rest of the world is wrong and your wonderful President is right.  Just because he is the President and so must be right?  You need to take a long hard look at what you are saying.

[Jingthing]

36 minutes ago, riclag said:

Rhetoric like that is freedom of speech. It is a constitutional  right.It is deeply American. 

He has the right to say it.

But he reveals what he is by doing so.

Decent democracy loving, free press loving Americans get it.

Referring to his twisting of the now famously notorious "Snake" song lyrics -- he is the snake and his poisonous bite is biting us. We invited him in by voting him in, well, a minority of Americans did anyway. 

 

 

Quote

 

Trump’s not Hitler, he’s Mussolini: How GOP anti-intellectualism created a modern fascist movement in America

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Like Mussolini, Trump is dismissive of democratic institutions.  He selfishly guards his image of a self-made outsider who will “dismantle the establishment” in the words of one of his supporters.  That this includes cracking down on a free press by toughening libel laws, engaging in the ethnic cleansing of 11 million people (“illegals”), stripping away citizenship of those seen as illegitimate members of the nation (children of the “illegals”), and committing war crimes in the protection of the nation (killing the families of suspected terrorists) only enhances his stature among his supporters.  The discrepancy between their love of America and these brutal and undemocratic methods does not bother them one iota.

 

 

https://www.salon.com/2016/03/11/trumps_not_hitler_hes_mussolini_how_gop_anti_intellectualism_created_a_modern_fascist_movement_in_america/

Edited February 27, 2018 by Jingthing

[riclag]

12 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

Humiliated or held to account?  Overwhelmingly the world's media ridicules Trump and what he says and so do most of the people in the world too.  But in your world you feel that the rest of the world is wrong and your wonderful President is right.  Just because he is the President and so must be right?  You need to take a long hard look at what you are saying.

Was Harry Truman right! Did the world call him mad and murderer ? I see what the last 40 years has done.We are going off topic 

[Srikcir]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

The district judge's decision to unilaterally re-impose a program

That's what a federal judge does - unilaterally make rulings.

They don't ask permission from the US Attorney General or the White House.

10 hours ago, webfact said:

"Nothing's as bad as the 9th Circuit,"

He'll need to add as bad the 2nd and 7th Circuits in a recent rulings that employees can use existing civil rights laws to sue for discrimination based on sexual orientation - "defined by one's sex in relation to the sex of those to whom one is attracted."

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/civil-rights-law-employment-discrimination/index.html

 

 

Edited February 27, 2018 by Srikcir
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