November 2014, after a stinging defeat at the polls, and with little left to lose in his political legacy, Obama announced a series of DHS policy memos that, when implemented, would rearrange his deportation priorities (after becoming the Deportation President with more than 2.5 million people deported), and create formalized system of Deferred Action to help long term resident undocumented …
Why Is There No Decision On DAPA From The Fifth Circuit?
Why is there no decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals on the Obama administration’s appeal of the District Court order temporarily stopping DAPA (Deferred Action for Parental Accountability)? This is the question on the minds of millions of undocumented parents of US Citizens. President Obama announced DAPA on November 20, 2015, with much fanfare and gave a sense …
Pope Francis’s Visit Is Not Likely to Push Congress to Immigration Reform
Pope Francis’s speech to Congress was a highly anticipated event, but it is one that is unlikely to push members of Congress to take action with respect to Immigration Reform—or with any other temporary measure, like Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents (“DAPA”). During the Pope’s first visit to the U.S. he had the unique opportunity of addressing both chambers of …
Three Reasons Conservatives Should Support DAPA
With Donald Trump’s wild rantings of the superior negotiating skills of the Mexican government, and his idea that all undocumented immigrants are criminals (neither of which has any basis in fact, but hey, its a presidential campaign, facts are not relevant), there has been a lot of attention paid to the Obama Administration’s DACA and DAPA programs. The DACA program …
President Obama–Publish the DAPA Regulation (And Why He Won’t)!
We found out this week that the “new” panel that will hear the actual DAPA appeal in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is actually the old panel. Judges Smith and Elrod were the majority decision in motions panel which declined to lift the stay put in place by Judge Hanen from the Federal District Court in Texas. Using polemics …
DAPA and The 5th Circuit–Three Reasons Why Obama Failed to Win Approval of the Policy Change
Its a sad day for immigrants who simply want a chance. DAPA falls, Obama fails, and politics live. http://www.nytimes.com/…/fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-rul… A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied the Obama administration’s request to lift a hold on the president’s executive actions on immigration, which would have granted protection from deportation as well as work permits to millions of immigrants in the country …
DAPA and The Court: You Can’t Get There From Here
There is that old story of a person stopping in a small town to ask directions outside an old general store. An old man on the porch of that store, when asked how to get to the destination, says “you can’t get there from here.” It seems that the District Court in Texas is having the same problem understanding …