With few exceptions, as long as President Donald Trump and all of those who now occupy White House leadership, the Republican led Congress, and people like Attorney General Jeff Sessions are in office, we will never have a compassionate government, one that will serve the needs of every American, we will never have equality, we will continue to embrace belligerency over diplomacy, and America’s oligarchy will be in command of sailing the ship.
The ten states that threatened Donald Trump to sue the federal government if Trump did not end DACA were all dominated by the Republican Party, which Sessions told Trump he couldn’t defend in court. Apparently, it was what drove Trump to make the decision to end DACA. That may have some merit but the real reason is that Trump is on a mission to rescind anything with Obama's name on it.
The debate over DACA comes down to a simple question: What kind of country are we?
McClatchy DC reports;
Jeff Sessions walked into the White House two weeks ago with a blunt message for his boss: The Obama-era program that keeps hundreds of thousands of people safe from deportation is unconstitutional. And setting aside any sentimentality, the attorney general told the president he would not defend the program in court.
That was when Donald Trump decided he had no choice.
"Once Sessions told Trump he would not defend DACA in court, he left Trump without any other legal options," said a source familiar with the conversation.
Trump struggled for months over what to do about the people brought to America as children. He wavered between disparaging as "amnesty" the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects them from deportation to then professing that he loves the so-called "Dreamers." He promised for months to show heart in his decision, but he faced the wrath of supporters who expected him to swiftly send people here illegally out of the country.
On Tuesday, as Trump's Justice Department announced the decision and urged Congress to do something if it wanted to keep the DACA recipients in the only country many of them have ever known, the responses from the left and right were predictable. But inside the White House, the fault lines and the calendar had shifted for weeks.
When Sessions delivered what turned out to be the decisive message, time had nearly run out. It was less than two weeks until a looming deadline imposed by 10 states that threatened to sue the federal government if Trump did not end DACA.
But the president was still conflicted, and so was his new chief of staff, John Kelly, who had personally supported DACA.
By Franco Ordonez and Anita Kumar
