Trump Suggests He Will Try Again in the
Coming Days to Rescind DACA
Coming Days to Rescind DACA
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Click the Play Button, above, to see excerpts from the June 19, 2020 White House press briefing, during which the White House press Secretary responds to questions about DACA.
President Donald J. Trump and members of his Administration on Friday suggested that, notwithstanding a decision against him by the Supreme Court of the United States (the Court), his Administration will soon make another attempt to rescind a popular program that has protected as many as 800,000 young persons who have lived in the United States most of their lives after being brought illegally to the country as children. The President implied that he would soon act to bring the program to an end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) via a series of posts on Twitter, a widely used microblogging platform, and his suggestion was reinforced later in the day by the White House Press Secretary.
President Trump's assertions, made via Twitter, came the morning after the Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that his Administration's September 2017 move to rescind DACA was "arbitrary and capricious" and not lawful.
In his tweets, the President wrote, that "The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They 'punted', much like in a football game (where hopefully they would stand for our great American Flag). We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfil the Supreme Court’s ruling & request of yesterday. I have wanted to take care of DACA recipients better than the Do Nothing Democrats, but for two years they refused to negotiate - They have abandoned DACA. Based on the decision the Dems can’t make DACA citizens. They gained nothing!"
In his tweets, the President wrote, that "The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They 'punted', much like in a football game (where hopefully they would stand for our great American Flag). We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfil the Supreme Court’s ruling & request of yesterday. I have wanted to take care of DACA recipients better than the Do Nothing Democrats, but for two years they refused to negotiate - They have abandoned DACA. Based on the decision the Dems can’t make DACA citizens. They gained nothing!"
When asked during her White House press briefing later in the afternoon about the President's assertion, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany asserted that all of the Court's justices said "that President Trump was essentially right on the law on DACA" but that “The dispute is instead primarily about the procedure the agency followed in doing so.” Continuing, she asserted that "President Trump was right on the law here. It was unlawful the way President Obama went about this. But as for the way forward, I just was in and was speaking with the President and the Chief of Staff about this, and we’re looking at documents currently. And we’re going to move forward in a responsible way and cure some of the remedies and the unlawfulness that we see with the previous memo that brought DACA into place.": She added, "but we want to find a compassionate way to do this."
When pressed later in the press briefing about a statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that called on the President to "strongly reconsider terminating DACA," she responded, asserting that "the President said to me, “I’m going to take care of DACA far better than the Democrats ever did.” Democrats had two and a half years to make a deal on DACA. They didn’t do it. He wants to take care of these individuals, but it needs to be done in a lawful way and it needs to be done in accordance with assuring that our border is safe, that it’s protected, that we have an end to lawless immigration and MS-13 and the havoc that we’ve seen wreaked in this country. So he’s for a measured response. And he’s offered deals to Democrats previously that have been rejected, so Democrats really seem to be using the DACA recipients as pawns and that is despicable."
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