The fate of undocumented youth now sits with a notoriously right-wing court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : On the other side, Vice President Kamala Harris, throughout her career, has voiced strong support for DACA.
54% : The judges -- one Bush and two Trump appointees -- rejected the government's argument that DACA is an appropriate exercise of prosecutorial discretion.
51% : With Dreamers off the agenda, DACA has lived far past its intended transitionary period.
51% : The case was brought by Republican-led states in 2018 challenging the legality of DACA.
47% : The lawyer representing the Biden administration petitioned the court to at minimum continue to preserve DACA for the more than 500,000 current recipients.
45% : At the hearing, the US government lawyer Brian Boynton and counselors for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the state of New Jersey defending DACA, disputed Texas' legal standing to sue, arguing the harm the state claims to experience from health care and education costs -- as well as their assertion that in the absence of the program, recipients without legal status would choose to leave the state or the country -- is too indirect and speculative.
43% : After the Biden administration appealed and issued a final rule to codify DACA into federal regulation, the Fifth Circuit sided with the states and upheld the district court's decision.
43% : At Thursday's hearing in New Orleans, there were a slew of specific questions before the judges: whether the Biden administration acted within its authority when it attempted to strengthen and safeguard DACA in 2022; if the lower court's ruling halting new applications nationally was excessive; and whether the state of Texas, a plaintiff, successfully showed evidence of harm as a result of costs associated with social services provided to DACA recipients.
37% : The case then went back to the lower court, where in 2023 Hanen declared DACA unlawful.
37% : Towards the end of his arguments, the Texas counsel acknowledged that they're asking for DACA to be wound down across the country.
27% : Twelve years ago, when former President Barack Obama proudly created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to shield undocumented youth from the threat of deportation, all involved thought of it as a temporary fix.
24% : In 2021, Texas District Court Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that Obama exceeded the executive branch's authority in creating DACA and that the memorandum violated the rulemaking process.
15% : If Trump takes back the White House, Cecilia Muñoz, who served as director of the Domestic Policy Council under Obama and helped establish DACA, told me, "You can expect DACA to shrink or disappear entirely."

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