Judicial Watch exposed how the Obama administration bypassed security background checks for DACA recipients which placed the nation’s security and public safety at risk President Trump’s decision helps restore the rule of law and constitutional governance The Trump administration’s enforcement action on immigration shows the best immigration reform is to finally enforce the law
Attorney General Jeff Sessions who made the announcement called DACA a “unilateral executive amnesty” Sessions also called DACA an “open-ended circumvention of immigration laws” and an “unconstitutional exercise of authority” by the Obama administration
In June 2013 Judicial Watch released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act FOIA request showing that the Department of Homeland Security’s DHS US Citizenship Immigration Services USCIS abandoned required background checks adopting instead costly “lean and lite” procedures in an effort to keep up with the flood of amnesty applications spurred by President Obama’s DACA directive