Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring
Speaker 1: legal issues in the news, and Today, Bloomberg Law host
Speaker 1: Jun Grosso and Greg Sture speak with Texas Attorney General
Speaker 1: Ken Paxton about the Trump administration's decision to end the
Speaker 1: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program that Paxton
Speaker 1: has criticized publicly for years. I thought I was going
Speaker 1: to ask you about what seemed to be a clean
Speaker 1: victory for you on this issue, but then the President
Speaker 1: put out a tweet and he seemed to suggest he
Speaker 1: might eventually reverse court. He tweeted that if Congress doesn't
Speaker 1: legalize DOCCA in six months, he will quote revisit this issue.
Speaker 1: Did you declare victory too soon? I don't think so. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 1: six months down the road. It should be obviously Congress
Speaker 1: dealing with this. That's all we've ever made the argument
Speaker 1: on is the Congress should deal with this. This is
Speaker 1: not something that is in the power of the presidency.
Speaker 1: And I think the president knows that he criticized this
Speaker 1: during his campaign as unconstitutional, so I I find it
Speaker 1: hard to believe that he would go back and do
Speaker 1: something that is outside of his area of responsibility or
Speaker 1: that he's given authority into the Constitution to do. General,
Speaker 1: you were the leader of a group of state attorneys
Speaker 1: general who gave Trump a deadline to end DACA. Do
Speaker 1: you have any concerns for these dreamers who played by
Speaker 1: the rules? Are country set for them? Absolutely? I think
Speaker 1: that Congress does need to deal with this issue and
Speaker 1: figure out what our policy going forward is that I
Speaker 1: do it's always important how the process is done. You know,
Speaker 1: our founders didn't want to king, That's what they said.
Speaker 1: Constitution up the way they did, and it really doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how the process is done. And so I'm not
Speaker 1: opposed to Congress addressing this issue, but I am opposed
Speaker 1: to the President of States changing law and act acting
Speaker 1: outside of what what his constitutional vities are, well what
Speaker 1: specifically should be done with them. So you have eight
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people. I don't know exactly how many of
Speaker 1: them are in Texas. I know it's a large number.
Speaker 1: Right now. These are people who have lives, They have
Speaker 1: the right to hold down jobs, and they don't have
Speaker 1: to fear, at least immediately be being deported. Uh, what
Speaker 1: what sorts of rights should those people have. Well, so, look,
Speaker 1: the problem with the president President Obama doing this is
Speaker 1: that it's a house at cards. It's not built on
Speaker 1: anything done legally, and so it's it's just as easily undone.
Speaker 1: If they're going to be granted certain status like Obama Wana,
Speaker 1: which was a green card in an ultimately citizenship um,
Speaker 1: that needs to be done congressily through statue because that
Speaker 1: that that is what controls immigration law. So my suggestion is, hey,
Speaker 1: if Congress wants to address this issue, and I think
Speaker 1: they should then deal with it the right way and
Speaker 1: and change law. Have the debate as Texas Attorney General
Speaker 1: Ken Paxton speaking with Bloomberg Law host Jean Grosso and
Speaker 1: Greg Store And you can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays
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