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