President Trump’s Promised Executive Action on Immigration

President Trump has promised some kind of executive action in response to the Supreme Court’s decision last month in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals casewavered on whether it would be a path to citizenship for DACA recipeints and has talked of a new “merit-based” immigration program.  Confusion reigns supreme.

Tom Porter for Business Insider reports that, based on a law professor’s critical response to the DACA decision, President Trump may figure that executive action is the way to go because it may be difficult for the next administration to change direction:

“President Donald Trump and his advisers are considering a loophole outlined in an article in the National Review that would enable him to bypass Congress and impose his own policies to restrict immigration, Axios reported Sunday. 

The June 22 article — titled `How the Supreme Court’s DACA Decision Harms the Constitution, the Presidency, Congress, and the Country’ — has been spotted on Trump’s Oval Office desk, and the president has brought it up twice in discussions with advisers, two White House officials told Axios. 

The article was written by John Yoo, a lawyer best known for writing the legal defense of the torture of detainee’s during George W. Bush’s `War on Terror.’

In the piece, Yoo argued that the recent Supreme Court ruling against Trump’s attempt to remove people shielded from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) act `makes it easy for presidents to violate the law, but reversing such violations difficult — especially for their successors.'”

KJ