DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump called the United States courts system ‘broken and unfair’ on Wednesday [1-10-18], the morning after a federal judge’s ruling that ordered the administration to restart a program that shields young, undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Republicans and Democrats are in the middle of a legislative battle over the program created by President Barack Obama, called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Lawmakers met with President Trump on Tuesday to discuss the program’s future…
Hours after the White House meeting, Judge William Alsup of Federal District Court in San Francisco wrote that it was not proper to kill the program, and that the administration must ‘maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis’ as the legal challenge to the president’s decision in September to end the program moves forward.
Mr. Trump has previously criticized the courts system after judges have halted or held up his policy initiatives.
Ms. Sanders said the fate of the program should be addressed by Congress.”
-Eileen Sullivan, “‘Outrageous,’ White House Says of DACA Ruling, as Trump Calls Court System ‘Broken’,” The New York Times online, Jan. 10, 2018