TOPLINE
The Trump administration has yet to accept first-time applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program nearly a month after the United States Supreme Court upheld the legality of the immigration program, as calls for legislators and immigration advocates for the White House to comply with the Supreme Court ruling.
Immigration rights activists gather in front of the United States Supreme Court on November 12, 2019. (Photo from … [+]
KEY FACTS
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website still notes that the agency is only processing DACA renewal applications, and the immigration attorneys cited by the Los Angeles Times They say new applicants are sent notices that USCIS “is not accepting initial filings.”
The Supreme Court ruled in June that the Trump administration did not provide adequate justification for its 2017 decision to end DACA, but still left room for the White House to try again to end the program in the future.
President Donald Trump said he will “take care” of DACA recipients, but he has not been clear on what form his action will take, and said in the same recent Telemundo interview that he would issue an executive order and leave it to Congress. Times He notes that the administration did not meet Monday’s deadline to request a new hearing of the case in court.
Immigration advocates are asking the Trump administration to start accepting new applications as required by the court order, and 35 senators sent a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, saying the department must “comply immediately “with the ruling of the Supreme Court.
USCIS has yet to respond to a request for comment, but the agency said in a previous statement that the Supreme Court ruling “is without foundation in law and simply delays the President’s legal capacity to end the illegal amnesty program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. “
Crucial quote
“Legally, there is no basis to reject new applications,” law professor Bill Ong Hing, director of the University of San Francisco Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, told NPR. “I am very upset and upset that this is an example of prevailing policy on the law.”
Big number
300,000: The number of immigrants who are not currently enrolled in DACA and who would be eligible to apply if applications were reopened, according to the Center for American Progress, including 55,000 immigrants who have entered the program since applications were initially stopped.
Key background
The USCIS’s refusal to reopen DACA applications marks the Trump administration’s latest attack on the immigration program, which Trump has promised to kill since he began campaigning for the presidency in 2015. DACA remains popular with most Americans , including the president’s own supporters. A June Politico / Morning Consult poll found that more than three in four Americans want DACA recipients to stay in the country and protect themselves from deportation, including 68% of Republicans and 69% of Trump voters. in 2016.
What to look at
If the Trump administration continues to ignore the Supreme Court order, experts say it could spark a legal crisis. “The longer the administration refuses to accept and award new applications and refuses to issue a new recession order … the more legal concern becomes,” said Yale Law School professor Muneer Ahmad. Times, explaining that the administration’s inaction “establishes a confrontation with the court with few precedents.”
Further reading
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the Trump administration rejects new DACA requests (Los Angeles Times)
Despite the Supreme Court decision on DACA, the Trump administration rejects new applicants (NPR)
Supreme Court blocks Trump administration from ending DACA (Forbes)
All the times Trump promised to revoke DACA (Forbes)
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