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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com --WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments to determine the fate of some 700,000 Dreamers as the 2020 presidential election nears and Democrats work to unseat President Donald Trump from the White House.
At issue is whether the Trump administration legally or properly shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly referred to as DACA, a program implemented by executive order of president Obama in 2012 that allowed undocumented adult children who came to this country as children a two -year reprieve from possible deportation.
They can also get jobs, attend school, and join the military.
Attempts by the president to dismantle DACA have been blocked by federal courts, the issue now before the Supreme Court during an election season and as Democrats, who lead the U.S. House but do not control the Senate, continue an impeachment inquiry against the president.
President Trump claims Obama, the country's first Black president and a Democrat, had no authority to issue an executive order creating DACA some seven years ago, and he wants the Supreme Court to agree with him, two of the justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, Trump appointees on a largely conservative policy making court.
The president says Congress, and not the president, has sole authority over DACA-type programs ans that federal legislation is required in lieu of an executive order by a sitting president.
He says Obama overstepped his bounds.
Trump's predecessor, Obama obviously disagrees
Efforts by Congress since 2001 to pass the DREAM Act (acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act) have failed.
A Republican billionaire elected president in 2016 via a contentious battle for the White House with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote but lost the election, Trump announced plans to begin phasing out DACA in 2017 when he entered office, spurring nationwide protests and a longstanding legal battle that will lose ground when the nine justices decide the unprecedented case after oral arguments this week.
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