Donald Trump does NOT really like to follow any law that he feels stops him from doing what he wants…
His admin was give a 25 day period to reopen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program…
That deadline has passed…
Democrats have accused the Trump administration of failing to cooperate with a Supreme Court order to reopen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows hundreds of thousands of people brought to the U.S. illegally as children to live and work in the country.
“Last month the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to reopen DACA for new applicants. A month later, that still hasn’t happened. This is unacceptable,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said in a tweet on Wednesday.
Attaching a letter signed by Democrats and independents and addressed to Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, Feinstein said Democrats were calling on Wolf to “immediately begin complying with the Supreme Court’s decision, which was delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts.
As the letter, which is dated to Tuesday, notes, on June 18 the Supreme Court held that the Trump administration’s efforts to repeal deportation protections for those who benefit from the DACA program, known as Dreamers, was “arbitrary and capricious.”
The Supreme Court had given the government 25 days to reopen the program and start accepting applications again.
This week, the deadline passed. Yet, the letter from Democrats states, “there is no indication that your agency has taken steps to fully reinstate DACA protections, as the Court’s decision unequivocally requires.”
“We have not located a single statement by you or any other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official notifying the public that your agency is complying with the Supreme Court’s decision,” the letter, which is signed by a number of Democratic senators, including California Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, states….