Ivanka Trump rushed to work Tuesday morning while seemingly hiding in an SUV just hours after DACA protesters stood outside of her luxurious D.C. home begging her and Jared to stop the president from ending the program.
Secret Service agents were photographed putting car-seats into a black SUV that was eventually backed into the home’s garage where Ivanka reportedly got in before departing.
Her husband, Jared Kushner, was photographed smiling while exiting their home on Tuesday sporting a business suit. He got into a waiting vehicle to head to the White House.
On Monday night, over a dozen people gathered outside of their home holding candles during a vigil while peacefully protesting against the Trump administration ending an Obama-era program that allows illegal immigrants who arrived as children to live and work in the US without fear of deportation.
‘Jared = Ivanka Please Protect Dreamers Keep DACA!’, a sign held by a member of the group read.
A photo shared to Twitter of the group said they were ‘concerned community members’ from Washington, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Idaho and Virginia.
In a rush? Ivanka Trump rushed to work Tuesday morning while seemingly hiding in a black SUV just hours after DACA protesters stood outside of her luxurious D.C. home begging her and Jared to stop the president from ending the program
Secret Service agents were photographed putting car-seats into a black SUV that was eventually backed into the home’s garage where Ivanka reportedly got in before departing
Her husband, Jared Kushner, was photographed smiling while exiting their home on Tuesday sporting a business suit. He got into a waiting vehicle to head to the White House
On Monday night, over a dozen people gathered holding candles in front of their home while peacefully protesting against the Trump administration ending an Obama-era program that allows illegal immigrants who arrived as children to live and work in the US without fear of deportation
A photo shared to Twitter of the group (above) said they were ‘concerned community members’ from Washington, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Idaho and Virginia
Neither Ivanka or Jared, who both work for her father as advisers in his administration, have commented about his announcement ending DACA, which stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally announced that Trump is ending the program and said it is an ‘unconstitutional exercise of authority’ by the executive branch and amounts to ‘unilateral executive amnesty,’ in a press statement.
The administration is rescind the policy that created the program, Sessions said.
It’s up to Congress to pass legislation extending the policy if it see fit, the DOJ official stated.
‘We are people of compassion, and we are people of law. But there is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws,’ Sessions said.
Sessions did not say how long the ‘wind down’ that DHS is enacting would take.
A weekend report said Trump was planning to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals scheme that his predecessor implemented five years ago at the conclusion of a six-month waiting period.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Tuesday that the Trump administration will ‘wind down’ the Obama-era program during a news conference
Protests from supporters of the DACA program broke out of over the weekend and extended into Tuesday at the White House and Trump Tower after the president made the announcement
The move is designed to give Congress the space and time it needs to approve legislation that mirrors the executive branch program that covers 800,000 people.
‘Congress, get ready to do your job – DACA!’ the president had said this morning on Twitter.
Sessions said Tuesday, during a televised statement at the Department of Justice, that Barack Obama had shown disrespect for the legislative process when he went around Congress to put DACA in place.
‘The executive branch, through DACA, deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions,’ Sessions said, claiming that ‘such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch.’
The law enforcement official predicted that DACA would be slapped down in court if it sustained a legal challenge.
A similar Obama policy, DAPA, that protected the parents of illegal immigrants went down in court earlier this summer.
‘If we are to further our goal of strengthening the constitutional order and the rule of law in America, the Department of Justice cannot defend this type of overreach,’ Sessions said.
President Donald Trump signaled his intent Tuesday morning to end the program that allows illegal immigrants who arrived as children to live and work in the US without fear of deportation
A weekend report said Trump was planning to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals scheme that his predecessor implemented five years ago at the conclusion of a six-month waiting period
House Speaker Paul Ryan argued in a statement just after Sessions had finished that the Obama policy, while well-intentioned, ‘was a clear abuse of executive authority.’
‘Congress writes laws, not the president, and ending this program fulfills a promise that President Trump made to restore the proper role of the executive and legislative branches,’ the GOP leader of the House stated.
Former President Barack Obama created the program in 2012 without the input of Congress. It provides worker permits and deportation protection to approved applicants on a rolling, two-year basis with an indefinite number of renewals.
Republicans say that Obama overstepped his authority when he mandated that the Department of Homeland Security turn a blind eye to undocumented immigrants who meet the DACA specifications.
GOP lawmakers eventually took him to court on the grounds that he had been veering too far into their lane.
Trump ran on a platform of ‘law and order’ that centered on pledges to build a wall with Mexico and deport an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants from the country.
He’s softened his stance slightly since he was elected, instructing his administration to zero in on violent criminals and leaving the DACA policy in place.
Trump seemed content to leave DACA alone until a group of 10 states, led by Texas AG Ken Paxton, sent a letter to DOJ the last week in June announcing their plans to sue the federal government unless Trump rescinded the executive order Obama used to create the program by Sept. 5.
Tropical Storm Harvey did nothing to slow Paxton down. He affirmed last week that his cadre of state attorneys general would take legal action today unless Trump did what they were asking.