The most immediate beneficiaries of the court ruling are likely to be immigrants who are eligible for DACA but did not apply before the Trump administration cut off applications in September 2017. The decision could also lead the DHS to reinstate the DHS, the same time the administration largely withheld: the ability for dreamers to leave the country and return, without losing their quasi-legal status and work permit.
But the import of the judge’s decision is unclear as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to relocate and take a very different approach to immigration. Biden is expected to limit deportation and push for legislation to legalize so-called dreamers, but the steps taken by executive action could face similar court challenges that target Obama’s policies and the steps that follow Trump.
The Supreme Court ruled on June 5-4, that the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to terminate the DACA was legally flawed. The ruling does not predict the end of President Donald Trump’s appointments program, but the failure of officials to take into account the relevant factors when they demanded the closure of the program three years ago.
The High Court ruling was expected to bring the program back to its full scope, but a few weeks later Wolfe announced a decision banning new applications and placing a policy against travel permits known as advanced parole. His order also reduced the length of the DAC grant and the approval of the relevant permit for up to one year over the previous two.
Immigration advocates call the move an act of defamation. A federal judge in Maryland is currently considering a proposal to declare the administration in contempt of court for failing to reinstate the entire DACA program.
New York Attorney General Letia James, whose office led one of the two lawsuits that led to Gaurofis’s ruling on Saturday, applauded the decision.
“The Supreme Court has already ruled that President Trump’s attempts to unjustly punish dreamers were illegal, but now another federal court has ruled that the administration’s attempts to target and punish innocent youth are also illegal.” In a statement. “Again and again, this out-going administration has tried to use young migrants as political scapegoats. … Our connection will not hesitate to use every tool at our disposal to keep these young people as safe as possible. C se puede! “
A DHS and Justice Department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
