Today like a Hostage Taker’s ransom video Jefferson Beuregard Sessions III told us Trump intends to kill the DACA program unless Congress can manage to save them within six months.
“The program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions announced.
Sessions complained Obama had used an executive order to circumvent Congress and claimed the program robbed Americans of jobs.
“We cannot admit everyone who would like to come here,” he said. “It’s not that simple.”
Sessions said the program was legally vulnerable, and would be blocked in court if states decided to sue the federal government.
“The Department of Justice cannot defend this overreach,” he said.
This put 800,000 people at risk of deportation after they trusted the Federal Government to protect them from exactly that if they followed the rules and worked hard. This is a betrayal.
In this discussion with Rep Steve King from several days ago Chris Cuomo manages to rip each and every one of who bogus bigoted claims to shreds with some truly expert fact jujitsu. It’s beautiful to see.
King spends a lot of time trying to build a false distinction between what he admits is problematic about Racial Profiling — which is what Arpaio was convicted of contempt of court for continuing after signing an agreement with the DOJ to stop — and just general “profiling” claiming that is a normal law enforcement tool. Cuomo doesn’t really address that issue but the point is that “general profiling” is just as bad as racial profiling in that it’s biased and ineffective.
We can see from New York Stop and Frisk program — which wasn’t supposed to be racial, but still was — that they would stop 600,000 people per year for “suspicion” based on their meeting a behavior profile yet they would only find guns, contraband or any laws broken only 10% of the time resulting in a citation and only 5% were arrested.
In every year, at least 80 percent and often 90 percent of those who were stopped were found not to have done anything wrong. When he was the city's public advocate, before being elected mayor, De Blasio released a report on the practice, finding that stops of whites were twice as likely to result in discovery of a weapon as a stop of a black person and that blacks were only two-thirds as likely as whites to be carrying something illegal. In other words: Most people were innocent, but whites who were stopped were more likely to be breaking laws regarding weapons or contraband.
Simply put this program was a 95% failure at correctly identifying anyone who was violating the law.
The problem here is that “profiling” as it’s used by the FBI Behavior Sciences Unit is a very sophisticated and specific form of psychological forensics where a crime scene is analyzed and the specific personal characteristics of that one specific subject are identified in order to locate that singular person. The FBI doesn’t attempt to apply these specific elements to the general populace because that’s flatly ridiculous. Local cops with only a High School education shouldn’t be attempting on-the-fly psychological and behavioral forensics because they aren’t trained for it, and aren’t good at it.
95% FAILURE RATE, ok?
During this discussion between Chris Cuomo and Rep. Steve King which is primarily about the pardoning of Sheriff Arpaio and his racist activities over the past decade eventually they get the statement made by King about “DACA kids with Cantalope Calves” crossing the deserts. (At 14;30)
King makes a ton of false claims for example saying that some of the DACA kids are “criminals” even though they have to pass a background check, that some of them are as old as 37 when they have to have been under 16 years-old within the past five years and that “no one showed him any valedictorians.” Well here are some right here.
First there’s Maybe Lara who was the valedictorian of Crockett High School in Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas high school valedictorian who described herself as "undocumented" in a tweet touting her academic accomplishments said she didn't intend to cause offense.
"My tweet wasn't made to mock anyone. I just wanted to show that no matter what barriers you have in front of you, you can still succeed," Mayte Lara told the Austin American-Statesman on Wednesday.
Lara graduated June 3 from Crockett High School in Austin. The 17-year-old's tweet read: "Valedictorian, 4.5GPA, full tuition paid for at UT, 13 cords/medals, nice legs, oh and I'm undocumented."
And just in case someone like King would claim she is merely a “fluke” there’s also Larissa Martinez valedictory of McKinney Boyd High School.
A North Texas high school valedictorian gave quite a different kind of commencement speech at a graduation ceremony on Friday. She announced she was in the United States illegally, blamed the U.S. immigration system for her illegal status, and even took a few veiled swipes at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.
McKinney Boyd High School valedictorian Larissa Martinez also mentioned she was Yale University bound when she stood before a packed auditorium and declared: “I am one of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows of the United States.”
Also it’s not true that ICE has been honoring DACA under Trump in the first place, they’ve already been deporting Dreamers for some time starting with Juan Manuel Montez.
A California Dreamer protected under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been deported to Mexico — the first under President Trump, according his attorneys.
Juan Manuel Montes, 23, was arrested by Customs and Border Protection officers on Feb. 17 in Calexico, Calif. after he was on his way to take a taxi home from seeing a friend, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.
“Some people told me that they were going to deport me; others said nothing would happen,” Montes told USA Today from a relative’s home in Mexico. “I thought that if I kept my nose clean nothing would happen.”
Yeah, right — that’s gonna happen.
Not unless we get out in the streets and get on the phones to Congress and make it happen.
And Juan was far from the last.
According to data released this week by the Department of Homeland Security, 43 immigrants whose protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was terminated were deported during the first two months of the Trump presidency, from Jan. 20 to March 25.
So we’re supposed to trust Trump and Congress to fix this problem and protect these kids from an ICE agency that is now running amok and not deporting criminals but breaking up families of law abiding residents?
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Immigrant advocates say the rise in deportations of former Dreamers is likely a result of Trump’s executive orders tightening border security and immigration enforcement.
The Obama administration prioritized deportation of immigrants who were deemed a danger to public safety, convicted of a serious crime, a threat to national security or who had recently crossed the border.
"Given the Trump administration's rhetoric and policies, I'm not surprised that more people are being targeted — including individuals who are longtime residents who pose no danger, contribute to our society and economy, and have U.S. citizen families," said Lucas Guttentag, a former senior advisor at the Department of Homeland Security under Obama who now teaches law at Stanford University.
Tuesday, Sep 5, 2017 · 7:18:01 PM +00:00 · Frank Vyan Walton
Barack Obama responds:
“To target these young people is wrong – because they have done nothing wrong,” he wrote. “It is self-defeating – because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel. What if our kid’s science teacher, or our friendly neighbor turns out to be a Dreamer? Where are we supposed to send her? To a country she doesn’t know or remember, with a language she may not even speak?”
Tuesday, Sep 5, 2017 · 9:21:52 PM +00:00 · Frank Vyan Walton
I saw this live but the Chooch got massively schooled on the Constitutionality of DACA on live tv.
“President Trump didn’t create a problem today,” Cucinelli told the panel headed by CNN’s Brooke Baldwin. “Barack Obama, when he was president, created a problem when he violated — knowingly violated the constitution with this program, but because it’s young people, it tugs at our heart strings and I understand that.”
He went on to claim that DACA, like the newly-ended Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program, had been “ruled unconstitutional” — an argument the ACLU of Texas’s new legal director Andre Segura refuted.
“The court that you’re referring to is just the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Segura said. “The fifth circuit was wrong on the DAPA decision. The Supreme Court has not spoken on this. So you need to be clear about when you say a court has ruled this unconstitutional. It is not the ultimate court and president after president, for decades, have used this prosecutorial discretion.”
Baldwin then gave the floor to former U.S. attorney Laura Coates, who agreed that Cucinelli needed to rethink his legal arguments.
“Andre actually is absolutely correct in that the unconstitutional definition that’s being used by Ken is actually inaccurate with respect to this case,” Coates said. “At the time the Supreme Court weighed in as to whether or not there should have been notice and comment proceedings, you had Justice Scalia who had just passed away and you had a 4-4 split which meant that there is no precedent on this issue. It has not been declared unconstitutional.”
Besides the fact that the DOJ’s OLC office issued an opinion authorizing the legality of deferred action DACA was not anywhere near the first time a U.S. President had ordered that immigrants who would otherwise be considered “Illegal” were allowed into the U.S. unilaterally. There was Jimmy Carter and the Boat People escaping Communist Vietnam.
In 1979 US president Jimmy Carter announced he would double the number of refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos accepted into the United States from 7,000 per month to 14,000. A poll from CBS and The New York Times showed that 62% of Americans disapproved. He did it anyway.
President Clinton made a similar decision regarding refugees from Haiti.
On May 9, President Bill Clinton announced major changes in US policy toward Haiti, reflecting increasing impatience with the failure of Haiti's military leadership to restore democracy. The president announced that the INS would conduct asylum hearings for Haitian refugees intercepted at sea, reversing the policy of returning Haitians and instructing them to submit their applications for asylum in Haiti. Clinton also announced the appointment of a Haitian special envoy--William Gray, the head of the United Negro College Fund and a former House majority whip.
Neither of them asked or needed Congressional approval for this just as the Trumpers proclaimed that they had “broad authority” to implement their Muslim Ban without Congress.
The Trump administration says the Constitution gives the president "broad authority to prevent aliens abroad from entering this country when he deems it in the nation's interest."
If that’s true, it seems that the Constitution should also grant Obama the power to do that in reverse, to allow “aliens from abroad” access and entry to the U.S. when it serves America’s best interest.
And frankly this serves Americas interest far more than a religious ban on people coming from counties that never attacked us.