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Legal experts and former Obama administration officials aren't so sure about that. The Supreme Court's big decision — or non-decision — on immigration, they say, could lead to the shutdown of the president's original program to aid so-called Dreamers, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. And the consequences might go even deeper, opening the door to a much broader legal assault on deferred action programs that go back decades.

Lawyers say there is little to prevent officials in Texas or other nearby states from moving to block or unwind DACA using a combination of the Supreme Court stalemate and lower court precedents that went sharply against the administration.


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In fact, the chief obstacle to blocking the existing program for Dreamers may well be not a legal but a political one: moving to strip young people of their quasi-legal status could trigger a backlash against Republicans at the polls in November.

As of March, nearly 730,000 people were approved for "deferred action" status under DACA and more than half a million of those recently renewed their status for another two years.

When Texas and other states moved against Obama's second program — Deferred Action for Parents of Americans or DAPA — before it was set to launch, the states appeared deliberately to avoid targeting the original DACA program. There were likely legal, political and optics reasons for that strategy, experts said



There you go guys. Let's just hope they don't get emboldened and go after the original daca. I've always wondered why they never tried to block or sue the original daca?

As if Republicans have a heart. If anything, being tough on kids word score them political points and they high five each other later.

What about the republican from Florida who has a heart to push for the Dream Act (similar version)?

Does he not have a heart?