You know DACA, the Executive Branch rule from the Obama administration which Obama himself said was un-Constitutional, and various courts have claimed was unlawful
Rep. Barragan of California says that, as president, Harris will expand DACA protections
U.S. Rep. Nanette Barragan of California spoke with USA TODAY at the Democratic convention last week, saying that a potential Kamala Harris administration would push for expanded protections for “dreamers”—people covered by the Obama-era immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
“I know that a President Kamala Harris is very supportive and is going to be ready on day one to sign a bill from Congress to provide those protections that we need to provide for dreamers,” Barragan said.
DACA offers deferred deportation (but not a green card or citizenship) to some people with a clean criminal history and a high school degree or military service record who came to the United States with their family as children.
The law was passed in 2012 as a temporary measure, and holders of legal status based on DACA remain in a tenuous position as courts have repeatedly thrown the law’s status into doubt.
Are the two USA Today writers ignorant or straight up lying? DACA was never passed into law. Democrats tried to pass The DREAM Act a few times during the early Obama years, but, it never crossed Obama’s desk for a signature. I’ve left the link in the 1st paragraph to stand, because it explains that it is an administrative amnesty instituted by the Obama admin, not a law. Did the two USA Today writers, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy and George Fabe Russell, read the story they linked, which is also at the USA Today? And then the Credentialed Media wonders why no one trusts them.
Earlier this year, President Joe Biden’s administration expanded the law to add a path for DACA recipients to apply for employer-sponsored work visas and green cards. It also allowed them to enroll in the Affordable Care Act exchange health insurance plans, often called “Obamacare.”
Barragan said that the president alone cannot expand laws like DACA: “That’s something that Congress is going to have to do.”
It’s not a law, meaning that the USA Today writers, and any editor that approved this, are just ignorant or lying. But, Barragan is correct: expanding DACA is illegal, because it is not a law to start with. But, it is no surprise that Harris would want to expand the un-Constitutional administrative amnesty, considering how many illegals flowed into the USA during the Biden-Harris time, with her as the “Border Czar”. With all the migrants flown in from Central and South America.
Is this actually a policy of Cackles Harris? No one actually knows, because she won’t say.
“We just saw the administration provide greater access to healthcare to dreamers,” Barragan continued. “And so we’ll continue to do that until we, of course, hear from the courts.”
I distinctly remember when Obama, his people, and elected Democrats said that Republicans were just fearmongering, that illegals would not be eligible for taxpayer funded Obamacare.
