U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty on Thursday weighed in after the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold former president Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Hagerty said this in a press release, which he posted on his website.
“The Supreme Court’s decision to prevent the Trump Administration from dismantling DACA, an immigration policy created via Executive Order by the Obama Administration, is appalling and another reminder as to why we need to confirm more constitutionalist judges to the federal bench,” Hagerty said.
“We need justices and judges who will not legislate from the bench, but respect the Constitution. Joe Biden and a Democrat Senate majority would confirm nominees who will get it wrong every time. In the Senate, I will support constitutionalist judges and work with President Trump to fix our broken immigration system and build the wall at our southern border.”
As reported Thursday, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. For now, those immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in the United States.
The 5-4 outcome, in which Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberal justices were in the majority, seems certain to elevate the issue in Trump’s campaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his first presidential run in 2016 and immigration restrictions his administration has imposed since then. It was the second big liberal victory at the court this week, following Monday’s ruling that it’s illegal to fire people because they’re gay or transgender.
The justices rejected administration arguments that the eight-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal and that courts have no role to play in reviewing the decision to end DACA.
Trump’s first reaction came on Twitter, where he retweeted a comment incorporating a line from Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissenting opinion in which Thomas called the ruling “an effort to avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision.”
Roberts wrote for the court that the administration did not pursue the end of the program properly.
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
Where was Hagerty’s concern about the broken system when he was Commisioner of ECD? In his last year as Commisioner 2014 fewer native Tennesseans were working than were working in 2000 despite a 60% increase in the native population. In fact according to the Center for Immigration Studies almost all the jobs created in Tennessee from 2000 to 2014 went to immigrants both legal and illegal. While he can’t be blamed for all of that there is no indication he did anything to push back on the invasion. I seriously doubt he pushed back on Lamar or Corker’s support for the gang of 8 bill. If somebody can show me a public statement he made about it then I would like to see it. Typical DC type claims to care about fixing a problem he helped create.