DACA today

Today is the deadline for congress to act on DACA and nothing has happened. Recall that President Obama was under some pressure to help the young illegal immigrants who were brought here as children but he said it was up to congress. Responding in October 2010 to demands that he implement immigration reforms unilaterally, Obama declared, "I am not king. I can't do these things just by myself." In March 2011, he said that with "respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case." In May 2011, he acknowledged that he couldn't "just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law myself. ... That's not how a democracy works." When congress failed to act Obama took measures into his own hands. "In the absence of any immigration action from Congress to fix our broken immigration system, what we’ve tried to do is focus our immigration enforcement resources in the right places," Obama said June 15, 2012. "This is not a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix. This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people." No court said this was illegal. Then last fall Trump gave congress six months to take action on DACA and the courts said he did not have the authority to do that. So by today congress was supposed to solve this problem but they failed to do so. Courts can be confusion.