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Dreamers get little traction with Supreme Court’s conservative justices

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...reamers-069801

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Some liberal justices seemed to endorse Trump’s authority to end the program, but said he needed to embrace the consequences, rather than pawning them off on a disputed legal memo from Attorney General Jeff Sessions that concluded DACA was both illegal and unconstitutional.

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Francisco insisted ending DACA did not take away any benefits from recipients because the work permits expire every two years and would simply not be renewed under the Trump policy, which lower courts barred from taking effect. He also said that the courts should give only “extremely limited” weight to the way recipients, their families and employers have relied on the DACA policy because it was never an open-ended guarantee.

“These benefits are allowed to expire on their own, Francisco said. “I don’t think anyone could reasonably assume that DACA was going to remain in effect in perpetuity.”

Sotomayor scoffed at that notion.

“There’s a whole lot of ‘reliance interests,’” the liberal justice heatedly declared. “Look at the very president, the current president telling DACA-eligible people they were safe under him and he would find a way to keep them here — and he hasn’t.”

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But there wasn’t much from Roberts Tuesday to give hope to DACA supporters. At one point, he argued that Obama’s policy was unprecedented, if not illegal, because the number of people affected was much larger than similar actions by past administrations.

While DACA recipients have painted Trump’s revocation of the policy as opening them to deportation, Roberts emphasized that the case was not about the threat of deportation, but about eligibility for benefits like permission to work legally in the U.S.

“The whole thing was about work authorization and various other benefits,” Roberts said. “Both administrations have said we are not going to deport people.”

Not looking very hopeful when the Conservative Justices don't even want to consider the negative and serious consequences ending DACA will have on those that rely on it to work, live, and contribute to society. Since we won't be rounded up and deported the next day apparently that's all that matters.