After seven teenagers were charged in the fatal stabbing of Marcello Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, Mr. Levy's past harsh words and actions against undocumented workers have left him cornered with a tragically limited ability to lead the county in confronting this brutal act.
He also signed two executive actions targeting undocumented immigrants and officially laying out a plan to build that wall.
Highly coordinated confrontational actions by undocumented youth leaders occurred around the same time that activists from GetEqual were employing similar tactics to achieve repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy.
Even if he doesn't follow through or succeed, though, Trump's vow to try aligns with other messaging and actions attacking undocumented immigrants ahead of the midterm elections next Tuesday.
The case deals specifically with the constitutionality of the President's 2014 Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program, which offers "deferred action" to undocumented immigrants who are law-abiding parents of American citizens.
The power grab Mr Douthat is most vexed about involves the so-called DACA ("Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals") policy, whereby the president has directed authorities to postpone action against undocumented immigrants who arrived as children.
"We remain concerned about potential plans for a large-scale effort to offer parole or to defer action on undocumented aliens in the United States," the senators wrote.
Some labor organizations, though, have been pressing the government to stop taking action against undocumented workers and instead go after companies for recruiting and hiring them at low wages for work in hazardous jobs.
Last month she arranged a meeting with a family with mixed immigration status – some US citizens, others on deferred action or undocumented – to illustrate to the former secretary of state how complicated an average Latino household can be.
When the Court splits four to four — as it did, last term, on cases concerning the rights of public-sector unions, access to birth control under the Affordable Care Act, and President Obama's executive action on undocumented immigrants — it leaves precedent unsettled and major issues unresolved.
