Thread: U.S. Judge Presses Trump Administration on Dreamer Deadlines

U.S. judge presses Trump administration on Dreamer deadlines

September 14, 2017

Mica Rosenberg



NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday repeatedly pressed the Trump administration to extend an October deadline for some immigrants to reapply for a program that shielded children brought to the United States illegally by their parents from deportation.


President Donald Trump recently decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in March 2018. However, immigrants known as Dreamers with work permits that expire before then can apply to renew them for another two years if they do so before Oct. 5.


At a hearing in a federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said the administration’s “arbitrary” deadline is destructive, and extending it would give Congress time for a legislative solution.


“No one will be harmed by extending this deadline,” Garaufis said, “especially the 800,000 people who are sweating about whether someone is going to come knocking on their door and send them back to a country that they don’t even know and where they don’t speak the language.”


Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate said the Department of Homeland Security was already considering an extension due to recent hurricanes, but no decisions had been made.


“We will definitely take your concerns back to our clients,” Shumate said.


Trump said on Thursday he was close to a deal with Democratic congressional leaders on protections for Dreamers, astounding fellow Republicans while alarming conservative supporters.


The judge’s comments came as he was deciding whether immigration advocacy groups would be allowed to file new legal claims challenging Trump’s decision to end DACA. Those groups hope to bring a national class action that includes allegations Trump did not follow proper administrative procedures in rescinding DACA.


Garaufis cited Trump’s own tweets praising Dreamers as a reason to extend the October deadline.


“It would be useful to take some of the pressure off some of the parties, particularly these good educated young people that the president is speaking about with such admiration,” Garaufis said.


“This is a much wider situation than just these individuals,” the judge added. “They pay taxes, they pay mortgages, they support their communities.”


Martín Batalla Vidal, a 26-year-old DACA recipient whose status expires in February 2019, said he was glad the judge saw the economic consequences of ending the program.


“He knows that if we lose DACA and we lose our jobs, that will cause a lot of harm to our families,” Batalla Vidal told reporters after the hearing.




http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...KCN1BP2XS?il=0

DHS mulling deadline extension for Dreamers to reapply for DACA: report

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 09/14/17 05:27 PM

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A Justice Department official said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering extending the deadline for some young immigrants to reapply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) protections.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate said in court that DHS is considering an extension of the deadline because a pair of recent hurricanes devastated the U.S. in recent weeks, according to Reuters.


The program temporarily shields from deportation some young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children. President Trump rescinded the program last week, giving beneficiaries until Oct. 5 to apply to renew their protections for two years.
According to Reuters, federal court Judge Nicholas Garaufis pressed the Trump administration on Thursday to extend the deadline, saying that doing so would offer a reassurance to the DACA's hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries and give Congress more time to act to enshrine the program's protections into law, as Trump directed.


Trump has pushed Congress over the past week to act swiftly to pass legislation similar to the DREAM Act — a measure offering a reprieve from deportation to those immigrants affected by DACA.


In a tweet last week, the president said that if Congress failed to act on the matter before DACA is phased out in six months, he would revisit his decision to rescind the program.


But on Thursday, Trump said that he is not considering offering citizenshipto DACA beneficiaries.


"We're looking at allowing people to stay here,” he said. “Everybody's on board. They want to do something. We're not talking about amnesty. We're talking about taking care of people.



http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...or-daca-report

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Feds actively considering delaying DACA deadline

A federal judge signals he may step in if authorities don't delay Oct. 5 cut-off.


By Josh Gerstein

09/14/2017 07:22 PM EDT


The Department of Homeland Security is “actively considering” delaying a looming deadline for so called-Dreamers to renew their status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a Justice Department attorney said at a court hearing Thursday, according to attendees and a government official.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate cited the hurricanes that recently hit Texas, Florida and nearby states as grounds for the potential delay to the Oct. 5 deadline, while noting that no final decision had been made, an official said.


Word of the possible delay came as a federal judge signaled that he might postpone the cut-off date unless the Trump administration acted first, attendees at a Thursday court hearing said.

During the session, in federal court in Brooklyn, U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis repeatedly labeled the deadline “arbitrary” and said he saw little harm in pushing it back, according to advocates.

“He focused quite a bit on the October 5 deadline and called it arbitrary,” said David Chen, a Yale law student helping litigate the issue, “and said essentially that so many people who are DACA recipients would face quite a lot of harm and experience quite a lot of chaos if they were unable to renew by the deadline.”

The Trump administration announced last week that it was winding down the Obama-era program known DACA, a mechanism used to give quasi-legal status and work permits to about 800,000 undocumented foreigners who arrived in the U.S. as children.


Homeland security officials announced that people whose work permits are set to expire between Sept. 5, 2017, and March 5 of next year must submit a renewal application by Oct. 5 to receive another two-year permit. After March 5, no more DACA permits will be granted, leading to a two-year phase-out of the program, officials said.

However, advocates involved in DACA litigation said a government lawyer indicated that officials were considering extending the deadline.

“At the hearing today, the DOJ lawyer was again noncommittal but did not shut down the possibility of extending the deadline,” Chen said. “He said they took the question to their client, DHS, and they’re considering it.”

Homeland security spokesman David Lapan emphasized Thursday evening that there had been no change to the deadline as of now, but confirmed that a review was underway.
“Acting Secretary Duke has not made a decision to extend the October 5, 2017, deadline for eligible DACA beneficiaries to apply for renewal,” Lapan said in a statement. “The department will evaluate the impact on recipients living in the hurricane-affected areas. Eligible DACA recipients have three weeks remaining to submit their applications. They do not need approval by October 5, only to have submitted a renewal request.”


Despite the decision to wind down the program, President Donald Trump has expressed sympathy for the plight of the DACA recipients and is negotiating with Democratic lawmakers to try to craft legislation that would give Dreamers the legal right to remain in the U.S. Trump’s openness to such a deal has provoked a furious backlash from some anti-immigration hardliners who’ve accused him of abandoning his campaign promises.





Garaufis took note of those discussions and said he’d prefer to see the situation addressed by the administration and Congress, but he appeared willing to step in if that didn’t happen, attendees said.


“He thought this should be dealt with through the political branches, not through the courts, but he did say in three weeks this is happening and the best solution is to extend the October 5 deadline to give folks more time,” said Jess Hanson of the National Immigration Law Center. “He said, I don’t want the court to get involved, but people are going be harmed.”


Thursday’s hearing took place as part of a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of Batalla Vidal, a medical student from Mexico who entered the U.S. with his parents two decades ago. He is challenging the revocation of a three-year work permit he was issued, but advocates are seeking to amend the suit to add arguments that Trump’s decision to end the program is illegal.


While advocates had focused on the recent hurricanes and their impact on DACA recipients’ ability to renew by Oct. 5, Garaufis broadened the issue and said he was concerned that people across the country might not be aware of the deadline, attendees at the hearing said. He also expressed concern for people who could have filed first-time or renewal claims before Sept. 5 but did not because they didn’t know about the announcement.


The Justice Department also faced questions from Garaufis and Magistrate James Orenstein about its legal justification for continuing to implement a program Attorney General Jeff Sessions has labeled “unconstitutional.”


Shumate, the deputy assistant attorney general, did not reply directly on that point, but said the administration considered an orderly wind-down the best course of action given threats that litigation could abruptly halt the program.



http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...eadline-242742

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Originally Posted by southBronx

ship them all back home don't wait they have our job in Pittston Pa TJX & kappa book come out & see for your self they come by bus at kmart . 6.30 am trump ship they all back home

EXACTLY!! No Delays. Expedite. Get these people, their parents and their offspring all of whom have caused and contributed to the illegal immigration adversely impacting US out of our country and guess what? The problems go away.

DACAs are "The Snake".

We don't want them here. We want DACAs and every other illegal alien snake deported from the United States with minor offspring removed with them at the same time on the earliest possible date. This is the law, this is just and necessary law. This law protects American Workers, American Citizens, American Taxpayers and American Sovereignty from the scourge of illegal immigration.

DACA is Dead, because it was illegal to begin with.

Now, Bury It.