NEW YORK (AP) — The Department of Justice told a court on Monday that it shouldn’t have to turn over records related to President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation.
Lawyers for Trump’s administration asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court’s order they say would potentially require government agencies to review more than 1 million documents.
Already, lawyers for the Department of Justice said, the “extraordinarily burdensome and intrusive” request for documents has strained resources at some agencies, forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to pull agency lawyers and personnel from immigration court appearances and other routine duties.
Activists are suing Trump’s administration in New York and California over the planned shutdown of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. They want a chance to review documents showing how the Republican president and top administration officials decided to end the program.
The program has protected about 800,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families that overstayed visas. It includes hundreds of thousands of college-age students.
The appeals court has scheduled arguments for Tuesday before a three-judge panel.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican former U.S. senator from Alabama, has said the decision by then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to implement DACA was an unconstitutional exercise of his authority.
And the lawyers said in Monday’s written submission that judicial review of the decision of the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to wind down the program is barred by existing law.
“Here, the only apparent purpose of the record expansion is to examine the mental processes of the decision maker — to investigate what the acting secretary (and her subordinates) thought rather than what she decided,” the lawyers wrote.
Requests for comment from lawyers for plaintiffs were not immediately returned.
We all know Donald Trump has strong, sincere and genuine religious & moral convictions. These are amply demonstrated by his life of religious study and the decades he’s followed a holy, god-fearing lifestyle…
My inside sources tell me the documents arising from Trump’s consideration of the DACA termination, are those from his quiet contemplation of the issue with his spiritual advisors. So these discussions should be closely held, like the confidentiality associated with discussions with a priest in the quiet of a confessional.
So call me crazy, but I think this is totally legit.
[Wink]. Had you going, didn’t I?
Aw muffin, it would be too “burdensome” to make you go through all those papers?
800,000 people would find it pretty “burdensome” to be deported due to the dumbass decisions of your dumbass boss.
As you republican’s like to tell everyone who disagrees with the havoc you’re wreaking on the country…
“Suck it up, buttercup.”
These people are evil. I see Sessions has successfully eliminated anyone truly able to provide actual justice for vulnerable people in this country out of the DoJ.
The reason that lower court ruling should be followed is because of the ungodly number of people this administration is trying to affect by their ad hoc and hatefully prearranged decision. TRump is in the process of turning countless numbers of lives…800,000 upside down and inside out because this fucking Pr*sident is a total racist, xenophobic asshole motivated by his bigotry, and willing to take it out on innocent patriotic contributors to this country because they simply rub him the wrong way…Oh, and did I mention he’s a bigot?
@shystr was partially correct. What he left out was that it’s high-time we recognize the King from Queens.
Now, watch this missile launch.