Originally Posted by Outsider626

With Supreme Court oral arguments in the DACA immigration case less than a month away, a top Trump administration official on held out the possibility that a negotiated solution could be reached to keep so-called “dreamers” in the U.S. — even if the high court rules against them.

“I think you could see some movement in that direction,” said Ken Cuccinelli, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship & Immigration Services division.

Cuccinelli appeared Wednesday before reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

Cuccinelli, a hardline conservative, was asked what would happen to the estimated 660,000 DACA — an acronym for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — recipients, most of whom were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, if the Supreme Court sides with the Trump administration.

Cuccinelli said they would simply go back to non-legal status. But that would not necessarily subject them to deportation in the short term, he added.

“They don’t have any (deportation) orders against them, but they are not here with legal presence,” he said. With a backlog of more than a million deportation orders, Immigration & Customs Enforcement has prioritized “criminal aliens” who are released from U.S. prisons.

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