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Letter: Time for change in Congress

By Mary Bardmess, CAMAS
Published: September 10, 2017, 6:00am

In 2012, President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by executive order and removed the threat of deportation for some 800,000 young people who were brought into the U.S. as children.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, recently defended President Donald Trump’s announcement to rescind DACA by claiming he is giving Congress time to create legislation for comprehensive immigration reform. It was congressional inaction that necessitated Obama’s executive order in the first place. In her post, Herrera Beutler claimed that Obama created this “difficult situation” by circumventing the law with his executive order creating DACA.

Herrera Beutler knows that executive orders are legal and don’t circumvent anything except congressional paralysis. The first executive order was issued by George Washington in 1789. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order. Trump has already signed many executive orders. Whether we agree with them or not, they are legal and our representative knows this. Why does she say otherwise?

As various attorneys general across the country prepare to defend DACA recipients, our representative misrepresents the Republican Party by claiming it needed Trump to rescind DACA to force Congress to act.

We need a new Congress in 2018.

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