AILA president says smaller scale deffered action still available

He suggested the administration could also make wider use of deferred action, a decades-old legal policy allowing the government to temporarily delay the deportations of certain immigrants and grant them provisional work permits.

Obama’s contested immigration plan was based on this concept. Other Republican presidents have also granted large groups of immigrants such a status, but it’s never been given to so many at once.

Texas and 25 mostly Republican states challenged Obama’s program by arguing it bypasses Congress in giving a quasi-legal status to immigrants and ignoring administrative procedures for changing rules.

But the lower court’s injunction doesn’t mean the administration can’t still make use of this tool on a smaller scale.

“The (president’s) program really is just a broad stating of what the enforcement agency should have been doing all along,” Stock said. “They can grant deferred action on a case-by-case basis … they may grant it for shorter periods of time (than Obama’s plan) but that continues to be a form of relief that is available.”
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Good thread

Give some work permits who are in deport status already but nothing for clean undocumented seeking work permit?