{"id":9888,"date":"2017-09-06T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=9888"},"modified":"2017-09-06T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:29:57","slug":"attorney-general-jeff-sessions-announcing-end-of-daca-video-we-enjoy-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-announcing-end-of-daca-video-we-enjoy-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Jeff Sessions announcing end of DACA &#8211; VIDEO we enjoy watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama on DACA \u201c<strong>I am president, I am not king. I can&#8217;t do these things just by myself. <\/strong>We have a system of government that requires the Congress to work with the Executive Branch to make it happen. I&#8217;m committed to making it happen, but <strong>I&#8217;ve got to have some partners<\/strong>to do it. \u2026 The main thing we have to do to stop deportations is to change the laws. \u2026 [T]he most important thing that we can do is to change the law because the way the system works \u2013 again, I just want to repeat, <strong>I&#8217;m president, I&#8217;m not king.<\/strong> If Congress has laws on the books that says that people who are here who are not documented have to be deported, then I can exercise some flexibility in terms of where we deploy our resources, to focus on people who are really causing problems as a opposed to families who are just trying to work and support themselves. <strong>But there&#8217;s a limit to the discretion that I can show because I am obliged to execute the law. <\/strong>That&#8217;s what the Executive Branch means. <strong>I can&#8217;t just make the laws up by myself.<\/strong> So the most important thing that we can do is focus on changing the underlying laws.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2010\/10\/transcript-of-president-barack-obama-with-univision.html\">10\/25\/10<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) &#8220;is being rescinded.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a1jFl50owc\">https:\/\/t.co\/a1jFl50owc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FbJghu7VvT\">pic.twitter.com\/FbJghu7VvT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/905234449171972097\">September 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><code><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama on DACA \u201cI am president, I am not king. I can&#8217;t do these things just by myself. We have a system of government that requires the Congress to work with the Executive Branch to make it happen. I&#8217;m committed to making it happen, but I&#8217;ve got to have some partnersto do it. \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}