President Donald Trump said on Sept 6 that a bipartisan immigration deal “will be made to the benefit of all” in Congress if the Supreme Court rules to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“DACA will be going before the Supreme Court. It is a document that even President Obama didn’t feel he had the legal right to sign - he signed it anyway! Rest assured that if the SC does what all say it must, based on the law, a bipartisan deal will be made to the benefit of all!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump has repeatedly called the program unconstitutional and had vowed to end it.
“DACA was effectuated by the previous administration through executive action, without proper statutory authority and with no established end-date, after Congress’ repeated rejection of proposed legislation that would have accomplished a similar result. Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch,” he wrote.
Trump also said on Sept. 6 that President Barrack Obama did not have the “legal right to sign DACA, and he indicated so at the time of signing.”
“But In any event, how can he have the right to sign and I don’t have the right to [have it] ‘unsigned.’ Totally illegal document which would actually give the President new powers,” Trump wrote.
Later that year, Obama said he couldn’t “just bypass Congress and change the [immigration] law myself. ... That’s not how a democracy works.” But in 2012, that is what he did.