WEBVTT - Bloomberg Law Brief: AG Ken Paxton on DACA Termination (Audio)

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<v Speaker 1>Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring

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<v Speaker 1>legal issues in the news, and Today, Bloomberg Law host

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<v Speaker 1>Jun Grosso and Greg Sture speak with Texas Attorney General

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<v Speaker 1>Ken Paxton about the Trump administration's decision to end the

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<v Speaker 1>Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program that Paxton

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<v Speaker 1>has criticized publicly for years. I thought I was going

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<v Speaker 1>to ask you about what seemed to be a clean

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<v Speaker 1>victory for you on this issue, but then the President

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<v Speaker 1>put out a tweet and he seemed to suggest he

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<v Speaker 1>might eventually reverse court. He tweeted that if Congress doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>legalize DOCCA in six months, he will quote revisit this issue.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you declare victory too soon? I don't think so. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, well, I don't know what's going to happen

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<v Speaker 1>six months down the road. It should be obviously Congress

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<v Speaker 1>dealing with this. That's all we've ever made the argument

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<v Speaker 1>on is the Congress should deal with this. This is

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<v Speaker 1>not something that is in the power of the presidency.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think the president knows that he criticized this

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<v Speaker 1>during his campaign as unconstitutional, so I I find it

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<v Speaker 1>hard to believe that he would go back and do

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<v Speaker 1>something that is outside of his area of responsibility or

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<v Speaker 1>that he's given authority into the Constitution to do. General,

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<v Speaker 1>you were the leader of a group of state attorneys

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<v Speaker 1>general who gave Trump a deadline to end DACA. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you have any concerns for these dreamers who played by

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<v Speaker 1>the rules? Are country set for them? Absolutely? I think

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<v Speaker 1>that Congress does need to deal with this issue and

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<v Speaker 1>figure out what our policy going forward is that I

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<v Speaker 1>do it's always important how the process is done. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>our founders didn't want to king, That's what they said.

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<v Speaker 1>Constitution up the way they did, and it really doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>matter how the process is done. And so I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>opposed to Congress addressing this issue, but I am opposed

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<v Speaker 1>to the President of States changing law and act acting

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<v Speaker 1>outside of what what his constitutional vities are, well what

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<v Speaker 1>specifically should be done with them. So you have eight

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<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand people. I don't know exactly how many of

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<v Speaker 1>them are in Texas. I know it's a large number.

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<v Speaker 1>Right now. These are people who have lives, They have

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<v Speaker 1>the right to hold down jobs, and they don't have

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<v Speaker 1>to fear, at least immediately be being deported. Uh, what

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<v Speaker 1>what sorts of rights should those people have. Well, so, look,

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<v Speaker 1>the problem with the president President Obama doing this is

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<v Speaker 1>that it's a house at cards. It's not built on

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<v Speaker 1>anything done legally, and so it's it's just as easily undone.

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<v Speaker 1>If they're going to be granted certain status like Obama Wana,

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<v Speaker 1>which was a green card in an ultimately citizenship um,

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<v Speaker 1>that needs to be done congressily through statue because that

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<v Speaker 1>that that is what controls immigration law. So my suggestion is, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>if Congress wants to address this issue, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>they should then deal with it the right way and

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<v Speaker 1>and change law. Have the debate as Texas Attorney General

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<v Speaker 1>Ken Paxton speaking with Bloomberg Law host Jean Grosso and

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<v Speaker 1>Greg Store And you can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays

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