The fate of more than 660,000 Dreamers comes before the Supreme Court this week
By Jess Bravin, Brent Kendall and Michelle Hackman Updated Nov. 10, 2019 3:08 pm ET WASHINGTON—For most of his life, Carlo Barrera, whose family traveled to Austin, Texas, from northern Mexico when he was 6 and overstayed their visas, didn’t know he was in the U.S. illegally. In retrospect, he says, there were clues.
Whether Mr. Barrera will be permitted to remain in the U.S. and work lawfully—in fact, the fate of more than 660,000 young immigrants—comes before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, when the Trump administration seeks authority to cancel the temporary reprieve from deportation Mr. Obama granted the young people known as Dreamers.
Microsoft Corp. , which says it employs 66 DACA participants, joined with Princeton University, where approximately 15 to 20 DACA students are enrolled, and a DACA participant to file one of the cases before the court.“For us, this fight is not just about our employees,” Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote in a Friday blog post.
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Federal courts hearing separate lawsuits challenging the DACA cancellation in California, New York and Washington, D.C., all found Ms. Duke’s directive insufficient to justify terminating the program. Its “scant legal reasoning was insufficient to satisfy the Department’s obligation to explain its departure from its prior stated view that DACA was lawful,” wrote U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington.
The government contends that courts have no power to review its decision to cancel DACA no matter the reasons given. But it says any doubts regarding Ms. Duke’s rationale became irrelevant in June 2018 when Kirstjen Nielsen, then secretary of homeland security, responded to Judge Bates’s concerns with a three-page memorandum adding a policy justification.
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