would challenge that very process. right. and you know what s interesting about what the attorney general was saying is that he was talking about challenging the daca program, which president obama created under an executive order. it s interesting how the attorney general is not challenging president trump s executive order of january 25th, which removed the deportation priorities, putting virtually all undocumented people in this country at risk for removal. when he was talking about this lawsuit, he tried to present it as something akin to the lawsuit that was earlier done with over dapa. they are very different. because daca was not in place, they were in the lower courts able to get an injunction against it under threat they would suffer immediate harm. that would be extremely difficult to do when talking about daca, because it exists. it s in place, it has been a successful program for five years. it s transforming lives. so they would be hard pressed to go to a court and get a
fact it will stop drugs and gang members. is he correct? let s take that one step at a time. with respect to obamacare, there are some things that need to be fixed. we need to address higher premiums. the only way we re going to do that in a productive fashion to fix what needs to be fixed is it fashion.roach it in a bipartisan going forward the wait to fix it is in a bipartisan fashion. with respect to his tweet about the wall, the fact of the matter is that we have 11 let me tell you what i really believe. we have 11 million undocumented people in this country. under president obama, his deportation priorities were such that we prioritized deportation
issued by john morton. now we are in a situation where the only operative guidance we have are deportation priorities and hidden within them it basically affords the administration and i.c.e. wide discretionary authority to decide who they want to deport. and unfortunately that appears to be happening in larger numbers. and is it not just one or two or three cases you re seeing this occur in? well it is hard to say, but from our network of immigration lawyers, it appears the number of people facing deportation or have already been deported in the last week is growing exponentially. obviously it is fresh, we don t have exact numbers. matthew, i wonder what the white house should do to stop this from happening, they re saying they don t want it to happening, and you re telling me it is happening. yeah.
president obama s dramatic change in immigration policy has most latino groups cheering and other groups chafing. they will not only stop deporting young immigrants, they will make those under 30 eligible for work permits. might call it the back door dream act, using executive power to do something congress considered but haven t passed because of conservative opposition. this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. this is not a path to citizenship. it s not a permanent fix. this is a temporary measure that let s us focus resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people. the administration insists it has the legal power to set deportation priorities. as someone who is charged with enforcing the immigration system, we re setting good, strong, sensible priorities, and again, these young people really are not the individuals that immigration removal process was designed to focus upon. that s where the fight is. some con