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Texas DACA Lawsuit Threatens Many Work Permit Giveaways 24 Dec 2020 A Texas judge may strike down President Barack Obama’s 2012 DACA amnesty for roughly 700,000 illegal migrants — and undermine other giveaway programs that allow U.S. employers to keep foreign workers in jobs needed by Americans. In a December 22 hearing, the pro-migration supporters of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty asked District Judge Andrew Hanen to preserve the award of work permits, reg...

♪ ♪ paul: the supreme court hearing oral arguments this week in one of the most closely watched cases of the term with the justices taking up the question of when president trump can end protections for young immigrants known as dreamers. the administration is appealing lower court rulings that blocked its 2017 plan to rescind the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, also known as daca, which the obama administration created in 2012. were back with dan henninger, or kyle peterson ...

Sort of wipe the whole thing clean, start over. >> start over, meaning forcing essentially the legislative branch to readdress this and come up with a solution. and this is, indeed, a public issue in search of a legislative solution. there are about 700,000 of these dreamers, 1,000 of them are serving in the military. in fact, they do pay federal taxes. they pay about $3 billion a year in federal taxes plus social security. and that has added up to a lot of sympathy for them. 65% of republicans ...

Paul: so let me understand this. president obama could, by an executive act and using prosecutorial discretion, they said, as the justification, he could do it, but trump cant rescind it? >> well, thats exactly it -- paul: why not? >> thats one of the many logical inconsistencies in their argument. theyre saying that president obama used his enforcement discretion to shield these 1.7 million dreamers from deportation, and under the law -- or under rules, regulatory dhs rules, they are also allow...

♪ ♪ paul: the supreme court hearing oral arguments this week in one of the most closely watched cases of the term with the justices taking up the question of when president trump can end protections for young immigrants known as dreamers. the administration is appealing lower court rulings that blocked its 2017 plan to rescind the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, also known as daca, which the obama administration created in 2012. were back with dan henninger, or kyle peterson ...

Sort of wipe the whole thing clean, start over. >> start over, meaning forcing essentially the legislative branch to readdress this and come up with a solution. and this is, indeed, a public issue in search of a legislative solution. there are about 700,000 of these dreamers, 1,000 of them are serving in the military. in fact, they do pay federal taxes. they pay about $3 billion a year in federal taxes plus social security. and that has added up to a lot of sympathy for them. 65% of republicans ...

Paul: so let me understand this. president obama could, by an executive act and using prosecutorial discretion, they said, as the justification, he could do it, but trump cant rescind it? >> well, thats exactly it -- paul: why not? >> thats one of the many logical inconsistencies in their argument. theyre saying that president obama used his enforcement discretion to shield these 1.7 million dreamers from deportation, and under the law -- or under rules, regulatory dhs rules, they are also allow...

Are humans. >> reporter: arguments begin this morning at 10:00 a.m. you can see behind me just some of the dozens of people who have waited in line through the elements, through the rain, and throughout the night to get in here. the justices likely wont decide this case until june. that would be at the height of the 2020 election making immigration possibly even more of a focal point for these candidates. if the justices do, in fact, decide that the trump administration had the authority to end ...

♪ jon: a big week ahead for the supreme court. on tuesday after two years of wrangling in the federal courts, judges will hear arguments challenging the trump administrations decision to cancel the daca program. mark meredith has more from washington. >> reporter: this week the trump administration will argue before the supreme court that it has the right to end the obama era daca program. daca refers to the deferred action for childhood arrivals program created back in 2012. now on friday sup...

Arthel: okay. we leave it there, joel rubin. thank you very much. >> thanks, arthel. eric: f and as the impeachment hearings get underway, just across the street at the supreme court will pit executive power against immigration reform. the court is set to hear arguments over the trump administrations plans to end the obama era deferred action for childhood arrivals program, otherwise known as daca. mark meredith has the details. >> reporter: good afternoon, eric. its been more than two years sin...