{"id":5268,"date":"2017-09-05T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/05\/reason-to-end-deferred-action-on-childhood-arrivals-daca-act\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:21:39","slug":"reason-to-end-deferred-action-on-childhood-arrivals-daca-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/05\/reason-to-end-deferred-action-on-childhood-arrivals-daca-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason to End Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew C. McCarthy explains<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The problem is the substance <\/em>of executive action. DACA is defective in two ways. First, it presumes to exercise legislative power by conferring positive legal benefits on a category of aliens (the \u201cdreamers,\u201d as concisely described in Yuval Levin\u2019s Corner post<\/a>). Second, it distorts the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion to rationalize this presidential legislating and to grant a de facto amnesty. These maneuvers violated core constitutional principles: separation of powers and the president\u2019s duty to execute the laws faithfully.<\/span><\/p>\n

There has never been a shred of honesty in the politics of DACA. Democrats have taken the constitutionally heretical position that a president must act if Congress \u201cfails\u201d to. They now claim that to vacate DACA would be a travesty, notwithstanding that the program is blatantly illegal and would be undone by the courts if President Trump does not withdraw it. For his part, candidate Trump loudly promised to repeal Obama\u2019s lawless decree but, betraying the immigration-permissivist core that has always lurked beneath his restrictionist rhetoric, Trump has wrung his hands through the first eight months of his presidency. As for the Republican establishment, DACA is just another Obamacare: something that they were stridently against as long as their objections were futile, but that they never sincerely opposed and \u2014 now that they are accountable \u2014 cannot bring themselves to fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew C. McCarthy explains: The problem is the substance of executive action. DACA is defective in two ways. First, it presumes to exercise legislative power by conferring positive legal benefits on a category of aliens (the \u201cdreamers,\u201d as concisely described in Yuval Levin\u2019s Corner post). Second, it distorts the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion to rationalize this presidential legislating … Continue reading “Reason to End Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}