Thread: Sessions, unlike Trump, says DREAMers are 'subject to being deported'

Sessions, unlike Trump, says DREAMers are 'subject to being deported'

• By QUINN SCANLAN

Apr 23, 2017, 11:01 AM ET

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Striking a different tone than President Trump on DREAMers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said they like “everyone that enters the country unlawfully” are “subject to being deported.”

The Trump administration has let stand former President Obama's order protecting so-called DREAMers, unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, from deportation. And President Trump said Friday that young people protected under this policy “should rest easy.”

Sessions, in an exclusive interview Sunday on “This Week,” told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos, “There’s no doubt the president has sympathy for young people who were brought here at early ages.”

He also said the Department of Homeland Security's “first and strongest priority -- no doubt about it" is to arrest unauthorized immigrants who have committed crimes. "They’re focusing primarily on that,” he said.

“We don't have the ability to round up everybody and there's no plans to do that,” Sessions said. “But we're going to focus first, as the president has directed us, on the criminal element and we've got to get that under control.”

Pressed by Stephanopoulos on whether DREAMers can “rest easy” as the president said, Sessions said, “Well, we’ll see. I believe that everyone who enters the country illegally is subject to being deported.

In an interview with the Associated Press on Friday, President Trump said,

“We aren't looking to do anything right now” about DREAMers.

When the president was asked if the official policy of his administration is to allow DREAMers to stay in the country, he gave a definitive “yes.”

“That's our policy,” Trump said. “Long-term we are going to have to fix the problem, the whole immigration problem ... Here is what they can hear: The DREAMers should rest easy. OK? I'll give you that. The DREAMers should rest easy.”

Striking a different tone than President Trump on DREAMers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said “everyone that enters the country unlawfully is subject to being deported.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sessi...ry?id=46956350

The "Dreamers" should rest easy in their own Country.

Deport them all. Stop with the amnesty and free pass!!!

The DACA's are subject to deportation under DACA. It states very clearly on the website that DACA does NOT change illegal status. If you are in the country illegally, you are subject to deportation. DACA 2012 didn't change that. What DACA 2012 did was tell these people signed up for the program that DHS under Janet Napolitano wasn't going to deport them, not that she couldn't still deport them. She's gone. There is a new Secretary of Homeland Security who is going to enforce immigration law. There is a new Attorney General who is going to enforce immigration law. There is a new President who is going to enforce immigration law. And they're going to do things legally under the law, not on Memos based on personal preferences of former Secretaries of DHS or Attorney Generals. Are they going to target DACA's? No, not at this time, Trump made that clear during the campaign. He laid out his priority strategy for deportation during the campaign and has put this very clearly into Executive Orders, Memorandums and Guidances since he was inaugurated: criminals, misdemeanors, welfare, frauds, immigration document violations including visa-overstays, and threats to national security and public safety.

Sessions and Kelly are fully empowered to under existing law to deport every DACA they want to deport and have the resources to deport and when they are ready and able to do that, I'm confident they will. Why wouldn't they?

The real issue with DACA are the work permits. Like GeorgiaPeach focuses on, it's about the jobs and as I point out college seats where with their work permit in hand they can get the jobs at the schools they are attending and uproot American Students and rob from American Workers. The issue isn't about deportations, they can be deported under DACA, the issue is about jobs they're getting over Americans because of the work permits.

Our narrative needs to change on this in my opinion. Instead of attacking this DACA issue on deportations and "broken promises", we should be attacking it on the JOBS and EDUCATION ISSUE. It doesn't bring any advantage to our cause to imply that we want a DACA deported before an MS Gang 13 Member. It doesn't help our cause to constantly attack the President on what I consider a false "broken promises" meme because he wants to expend our resources deporting MS 13 Gang Members before DACAs when that is exactly what he said he was going to do during the campaign.

So to me, it seems more rational and thus more effective to attack the issue on jobs and educations that are currently being stolen from American Workers and American Students as a result of what I believe is a totally illegal issuance of work permits by USCIS to people who aren't entitled to them under the law.

There should be no work permit issued to anyone who isn't qualified or eligible for a green card or a visa which means there should be no work permits arbitrarily issued by the Department of Homeland Security to anyone for any reason because of the unfair and illegal foreign labor competition it creates against American citizens and legal immigrants.

Just my two cents.

Unlike President Trump, I have no doubt that Jeff Sessions would have ended DACA immediately if their rolls were reversed. Sessions is a law and order guy and Trump's recent words of encouragement and inaction on the DACA illegals probably frustrates him. Just my opinion.

Oh I don't think Jeff Sessions is "frustrated" by anything President Trump is doing, because he is doing so much for us and our cause in every possible way. Jeff Sessions knows the difference between the 2 Obama Executive Orders Trump promised to end and the Janet Napolitano Memo Directive plus he and John Kelly know how to end it without causing protests, riots and lawsuits or jeopardizing funding for missions and priorities that may be viewed as more critical at this time.

The real issue is how or why the US Department of Homeland Security can arbitrarily issue a work permit to someone who is ineligible to have it. That seems to be to a complete usurpation of US immigration law, the very set of laws DHS is to enforce. Who you deport when or how is prosecutorial discretion, giving an illegal alien a work permit is not, it's a direct violation of the whole purpose of US immigration law at the expense of American Workers.

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Oh I don't think Jeff Sessions is "frustrated" by anything President Trump is doing

If you were to bet on that, you'd lose! Sessions was adamant in his position on ending DACA immediately! Heck, he even said so during his confirmation hearings. Of course we all know these hearings took place after Trump was elected! Yep, I'm 100% sure he is as frustrated as we are that Trump failed to keep his promise to end DACA immediately.

Sen. Sessions Strongly Suggests that DACA Should End; Refuses to Disavow Extremist Ties

by AV Press Releases on January 11, 2017

Two of the Most Telling and Disturbing Exchanges During Day One of Sen. Sessions’ AG Hearings

During the first day of Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, two particular topics and exchanges caught our eye:

Sessions reiterated his longstanding view that the DACA program for Dreamers should end, thereby revoking work permits for 750,000 young people who are pursuing careers and education without fear of deportation because of DACA.

Sessions refused to disavow his ties to extreme anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant organizations. In fact, instead of distancing himself from these associations, Sen. Sessions instead attacked the credibility of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has researched these groups extensively and labeled some of them to be hate groups.

Senator Sessions and DACA

Unbeknownst to Sessions, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is an unqualified success, helping to drive economic growth, bolster job creation, keep families together, promote education and community integration, and strengthen civic ties throughout the country. During exchanges with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Sessions reiterated his view that DACA should end — which would mean that more than 750,000 DACA recipients would lose jobs, educational opportunities and protection against deportation.

“It would certainly be constitutional, I believe, to end that order,” Sen. Sessions said in response to a question from Sen. Graham about DACA’s future. Later, Sen. Durbin said, “What’s going to happen to those 800,000 [DACA recipients] if you revoke that order and they are subject to deportation tomorrow? … What is the humane, legal answer to that?” Sen. Sessions’ response was evasive, but telling:

“The attorney general’s role is to enforce the law. And, as you know, Sen. Durbin, we’re not able financially, or any other way, to seek out and remove everybody that’s in the country illegally. President [-elect] Trump has indicated that criminal aliens — like President Obama indicated — certainly are the top group of people. So I would think that the best thing for us to do — and I would urge colleagues that we understand this — let’s fix this system. And then we can work together after this lawlessness has been ended. And then we can ask the American people and enter into a dialogue about how to compassionately treat people who’ve been here a long time.”

To translate, Senator Sessions’ supports ending DACA, and suggests some day, somehow, some way his colleagues would come together to “fix [the] system.” Of course, Sessions’ has been the chief opponent to every bipartisan effort to do just that, making his words ring hollow. As Sen. Durbin said on MSNBC this morning, “on the issue of immigration, [Sessions] didn’t back off an inch yesterday… 800,000 Dreamers who could … be subject to immediate deportation, he didn’t offer any kind of an approach to this that showed any humanity or concern.”

As a recent economic analysis from the Center for American Progress found, ending DACA for its more than 750,000 recipients, “would wipe away at least $433.4 billion from the U.S. gross domestic product” over the next decade.

Perhaps more powerful than the clear economic benefit of DACA are the personal testimonials from Dreamers, who have highlighted how DACA transformed their lives and futures–and exactly what is at stake for them if it is ended. Click through this New York Times collection of Dreamers’ stories and watch the Senate testimony of Dreamer and veteran Oscar Vasquez for additional examples of why it’s in America’s interest to continue DACA. And read this powerful statement by Denisse Rojas, a DACA-mented medical school student, who was present at yesterday’s hearing.

Sessions And Ties to Extremists

In a sustained back and forth between Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Senator Sessions (see video here), Sen. Blumenthal explored Sen. Sessions’ disturbing ties to extreme, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant organizations. Blumenthal asked why Sessions had failed to report these awards and ties in his nominee questionnaire, and noted that these associations call into question Sen. Sessions’ commitment to anti-discrimination issues. In response, Sessions chose not to disavow these awards and associations, but instead attack the credibility of highly-respected civil rights organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

Specifically, Sen. Blumenthal noted that Sen. Sessions had accepted awards from anti-Muslim extremist organizations, such as the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2014 and Frank Gafney’s Center for Security Policy in 2015 (see backgrounders from the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center). Blumenthal also noted Sen. Sessions’ relationship with FAIR, a designated anti-immigrant hate group according to the SPLC, founded by white nationalist John Tanton.

Senator Blumenthal: “Senator Sessions, how can Americans have confidence you’re going to enforce anti-discrimination laws if you’ve accepted awards from these kinds of groups and associated with these kinds of individuals?”

Senator Sessions: “I don’t know that I’ll defer to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as the final authority on who’s a radical group…I would first challenge that…I believe my views on immigration are correct, just, decent, and right.”

Senator Blumenthal: “[T]he people of the United States might be forgiven for concluding that the kinds of attitudes and the zealousness, or lack of it, that you bring to enforcement of anti-discrimination laws might be reflected in your acceptance of awards from these organizations, your association with these kinds of individuals, so I’m giving you the opportunity to completely repudiate and return these awards.”

Senator Sessions: “I don’t feel like it’s right to judge me and require that I give back an award … it wouldn’t be proper for you to insist that I’m somehow disqualified from Attorney General because I accepted an award.”

http://americasvoice.org/press_relea...xtremist-ties/

Yep, if Attorney General Jeff Sessions had his way, DACA would be over, ended gone, done with as we speak!

“It would certainly be constitutional, I believe, to end that order,” Sen. Sessions said in response to a question from Sen. Graham about DACA’s future. Later, Sen. Durbin said, “What’s going to happen to those 800,000 [DACA recipients] if you revoke that order and they are subject to deportation tomorrow? … What is the humane, legal answer to that?” Sen. Sessions’ response was evasive, but telling:

“The attorney general’s role is to enforce the law. And, as you know, Sen. Durbin, we’re not able financially, or any other way, to seek out and remove everybody that’s in the country illegally. President [-elect] Trump has indicated that criminal aliens — like President Obama indicated — certainly are the top group of people. So I would think that the best thing for us to do — and I would urge colleagues that we understand this — let’s fix this system. And then we can work together after this lawlessness has been ended. And then we can ask the American people and enter into a dialogue about how to compassionately treat people who’ve been here a long time.”

Sounds exactly like the policy Trump had throughout the campaign. Back home we had an ole saying, MW, "you're barking up the wrong tree". Time to learn to be a team player to get things done, MW, so we can make real progress for the American People by ending illegal immigration at the borders and from visa-overstays and removing all illegal aliens from our population through rapid deportations, quickly and quietly.

Originally Posted by Judy

Sounds exactly like the policy Trump had throughout the campaign. Back home we had an ole saying, MW, "you're barking up the wrong tree". Time to learn to be a team player to get things done, MW, so we can make real progress for the American People by ending illegal immigration at the borders and from visa-overstays and removing all illegal aliens from our population through rapid deportations, quickly and quietly.

Yes it does sound like the same policy. However, there is one huge difference. Sessions, after Trump's election and during his own confirmation hearing said he still thinks DACA should be canceled. While Sessions stood his ground, even during his confirmation, Trump bowed to those who recommended against ending DACA.

As an independent thinker, I've never considered myself as much of a cheerleader. So all I'm going to say on that is. Keep your promise Mr. President and end DACA now!

Trump hasn't bowed to anyone, never has and never will. He's going to manage fixing this disaster called illegal immigration in the best way he can to end this travesty in our country once and for all, because no one else has. It's surprising that the organizations who benefit most from his efforts are the ones running headline after headline from the MSM and DNC to attack him for it. It's just really strange to watch.

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