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haveahart

(905 posts) Wed Sep 6, 2017, 06:01 AM Sep 2017

Obama DID NOT violate the Constitution with DACA. He issued an Executive Order. [View all]

HE DID NOT MAKE A LAW. He did what other Presidents have done for eons. The Executive Order will expire. No LAW was made or enacted by Obama.

Do not allow them to get away with meme. DACA has NOT been ruled "unconstitutional" as of this date. When and if it is then they can make that charge. The Constitution says that only Congress can declare war, yet Trump is talking about bombing the hell out of NK and Congress has not yet passed a war powers act. If SCOTUS decides that DACA was unconstitutional (and it may) then let the Congress deal with it by passing a law to protect the innocent. We are not making America white again. This land wasn't white to begin with, it never was and never will be.

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Obama DID NOT violate the Constitution with DACA. He issued an Executive Order. [View all] haveahart Sep 2017 OP

Here's the legislative history of the DREAM ACT which started in underthematrix Sep 2017 #1

That's not what the racist "Center for Immigration Studies" says! Orrex Sep 2017 #2

Oh Come On! Of course it was illegal. He's a Democrat, right? Chasstev365 Sep 2017 #3

Actually Bush is way, way down the list. former9thward Sep 2017 #10

Point taken, but the Republicans only make this issue when Democrats hold power Chasstev365 Sep 2017 #12

So Trump just pushed DACA to the Supreme Court? Not Ruth Sep 2017 #4

Of course he didn't. People forget, Obama's a constitutional scholar. Hortensis Sep 2017 #5

Sadly not everyone on the SCOTUS is a constitutional scholar. This could have been settled if haveahart Sep 2017 #7

They all become. But not all have the required judicial temperament. Obama does. Hortensis Sep 2017 #8

"This land wasn't white to begin with..." handmade34 Sep 2017 #6

When was the last time Congress declared war? former9thward Sep 2017 #9

Trump exec orders: "Good for America." Exec orders by the black guy: "illegal and bad." Doodley Sep 2017 #11

If republiCANTs say it, I automatically assume it's a lie rock Sep 2017 #13

explain that to the racist AG sessions spanone Sep 2017 #14