How so? I ask you in good faith, I think your posts are thoughful and honest for such a young person.

Did John Lennon push it too far with deferred action? He had a drug conviction, I think.

These are still individual cases with individual circumstances and just because those involved have public figures, we don't know all the details of their stories. Even their attoneys might not know every little thing or circumstance that when pieced together over the narrative and timeline would make their cases compelling. The activists have never been in deportation proceedings before, right? Except for the one woman who had been deported seven years ago and re-entered with the group.

So, the government doesn't have a case file for them that would be as detailed and comprehensive as that of an individual with a case in proceedings and appeal. I don't think these will be the equivalent of class-action cases but the unknown and the possible is what's at stake here.