Jeff Sessions' Rationale for Ending DACA Is a Gigantic Bucket of Horseshit

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https://www.gq.com/story/jeff-sessions-daca-announcement


Jeff Sessions' Rationale for Ending DACA Is a Gigantic Bucket of Horseshit

By Jay Willis
a day ago

The attorney general's dog whistle is louder than ever.

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Perhaps the attorney general's most outrageously disingenuous bit of drivel, though, came when he blasted DACA as an "unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch" in the area of immigration policy—a particularly rich claim coming from a man whose flagrantly unlawful Muslim ban has been repeatedly and contemptuously jammed in the garbage can by seemingly every federal court in the nation at this point. (Strange how when implementing its own immigration policy, the Trump administration crows loudly and righteously that the executive's powers will "not be questioned," but when it comes to the immigration policy implemented by the previous officeholder, Jeff Sessions suddenly transmogrifies into the world's most vocal champion of separation of powers.)

Here is the attorney general patiently explaining the ideological underpinnings of a decision that threatens to uproot hundreds of thousands of hardworking young people, all of whom came to the United States as children, and force them to go live in a country that they probably don't even remember:

Societies where the rule of law is treasured are societies that tend to flourish and succeed. Societies where the rule of law is subject to political whims and personal biases tend to become societies afflicted by corruption, poverty, and human suffering.

For once, Jeff Sessions is right: Mixing unchecked executive power with the political whims and personal biases of those who wield it uncritically and thoughtlessly will lead to tremendous human suffering. Should he wish to see an illustration of this principle in action, he need only find the closest mirror.