Trump administration ends the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program

President Donald Trump is claiming that if the Supreme Court decision backs his choice to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program giving legal protections for young unauthorized immigrants, striking the program down, Congress will step in to protect them instead.

On Friday morning, Trump started tweeting about the case, which the court will hear in November, in reaction to comments from Christopher Hajec, director of litigation for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, an organization that opposes unauthorized immigration. Hajec had said that the justices should be examining the question of whether DACA is lawful, rather than probing Trump’s decision to end DACA.

The Supreme Court still hasn’t announced whether it will take up a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

And that’s big news.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just upheld a ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects some 600,000 unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation and allows them to work legally in the United States.

The administration’s plan to end DACA has been on hold since January, when Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California ruled that it had to continue allowing immigrants currently covered by the program to renew their two-year grants of protection. (Under the administration’s plan, DACA grants would have started to expire en masse on March 5, 2018.)

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which President Trump sought to shut down in September 2017 but which has been partially reanimated by judges elsewhere — is probably illegal.

But Judge Andrew Hanen is refusing to order the program shut down immediately.

For several months, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has quietly shambled along in a zombielike state.

The Trump administration had announced in September 2017 that it was sunsetting the program, which had temporarily protected from deportation young adult unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children.

Daniel Marques would probably be working as a financial adviser for a big investment firm in New Jersey right now.

David Rodriguez might have landed an internship with Procter & Gamble in Miami.

Just hours before the House is scheduled to vote on two sweeping Republican-led immigration bills, President Donald Trump managed to undermine Republicans’ entire legislative process with a simple question: What’s the point?

“What’s the purpose,” Trump tweeted, noting that neither of the House immigration bills will go anywhere in the Senate, where Republicans will need the support of at least nine Democrats to pass any legislation.

House Speaker Paul Ryan made a claim about the ongoing immigration fight in Congress during his weekly press conference that everyone knows isn’t true.

“What we all agree is that the four pillars is a really good point to rally around,” Ryan said at a press conference Thursday about the White House’s four immigration policy demands. “We don’t have disagreement on those four pillars. What we are doing now is reaching consensus on how to address those four pillars.”

As the Trump administration’s immigration policy around asylum seekers and child immigrants becomes a national flashpoint, Congress is inching closer to another contentious, high-stakes, nearly impossible-to-resolve fight over young unauthorized immigrants brought to the US as children, known as DREAMers.

More and more members of Congress are signing on to a discharge petition, which would force votes on several legislative fixes in the House for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program protecting many young undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration decided to fully sunset DACA in March, though the fate of the program has been held up in courts.

Congress looks like it’s about to get into another contentious, high-stakes, nearly impossible-to-resolve fight over young unauthorized immigrants brought to the US as children, known as DREAMers.

More and more members of Congress are signing on to a discharge petition, which would force votes on several legislative fixes for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the House. The Trump administration decided to fully sunset DACA in March, though the fate of the program has been held up by court rulings.

The House of Representatives has so far avoided taking up any immigration bills to address the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the 690,000 or so young unauthorized immigrants facing the loss of their temporary deportation protections under it.

Some members are trying to force the issue. And they’re moderate Republicans.

The legal battle over the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which grants temporary protection from deportation and work permits to nearly 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children — has just become a two-front war.

The Trump administration’s efforts to wind down DACA starting in September 2017 were challenged — and have been partially, temporarily thwarted — by lawsuits from the left. Under rulings from two federal judges, the administration is currently allowing immigrants who already have DACA to apply for two-year extensions of their work permits; a third federal judge is threatening to force the administration to start allowing immigrants who qualify to apply for DACA for the first time, too.

A federal judge in Washington, DC, has just reopened the door a crack to young unauthorized immigrants who qualified for relief from deportation and work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which the Trump administration wound down in September.

But the administration has 90 days to shut that door again.

The president is tweeting again.

On Sunday and Monday mornings, President Donald Trump posted rants about an immigration “caravan” that spiraled into attacks on Democrats and Mexico. Like many things the president tweets, they’re somewhat cryptic unless you’ve been following the news (preferably Fox News) as obsessively as he does.

Ever since the Trump administration announced in September that it was winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, there’s been a ton of confusion about what is actually going on.

Politicians and the press have repeatedly cited March 5 — the date Trump picked in September, as a warning to Congress to finally find a solution for the 690,000 undocumented immigrants protected from deportation under DACA — as an “expiration date” for DACA recipients themselves.

In September, when the Trump administration announced that it was winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protected young unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, tens of thousands of immigrants were waiting to hear back about DACA applications they’d already submitted.

Many of them are still waiting.

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to expedite a decision on DACA. This keeps the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on life support for a few more months, and its 690,000 recipients in limbo on whether they will get to stay in the country. Congress still hasn’t been able to pass a vote either way.

On the latest episode of Today, Explained, Vox’s Dara Lind and Matthew Yglesias make clear why Congress is in such a stalemate: President Donald Trump has moved the conversation into unfamiliar territory, from illegal immigration to legal immigration.

The judicial battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected 690,000 young unauthorized immigrants from deportation, has just been extended by several months.

On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a highly unusual request from the Trump administration: to skip over the second level of the federal court process (the courts of appeals) by having the Supreme Court consider an order made in January by a California district court judge.

Mainstream coverage of the debate over President Donald Trump’s DACA hostage-taking has been marked by an alarming insouciance, verging on denial, about what’s actually going on — and about just how much is on the line.

Trump and his restrictionist supporters are frank about what they want, and why, but the media is often too genteel or too cowed by fear of the charge of bias to faithfully relate what newly energized ethnonationalist populists themselves say.

Donald Trump said he wanted to make a deal on DACA. Donald Trump just spent the past few days doing everything he could to kill a deal on DACA. Therefore, Donald Trump deserves the blame for the Senate’s failure to pass an immigration bill.

It’s really that simple.

Congress this week failed to come up with a solution to protect undocumented people who have been shielded from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program is now set to end on March 5, six months after US Attorney Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration planned to phase out DACA, which has protected as many as 800,000 undocumented people.

The failure to protect these people would be a tragedy, because the program has changed many, many lives for the better, as my research and that of others has shown. It took them out of limbo and let them contribute to their families, communities, and the US economy.

The Senate has left town without a deal on immigration.

After months of failed negotiations, senators voted down four immigration proposals Thursday. The bill that had President Donald Trump’s blessing received the fewest votes. The only comprehensive bipartisan proposal on the table not only failed to win enough votes, but was also panned by Trump’s administration.

The votes are in — and the bipartisan immigration proposal that had the best chance of passing has failed.

On Thursday afternoon, a compromise proposal written by Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Angus King (I-ME), went down to defeat in the Senate, with 54 votes in favor and 45 against. 60 votes were necessary for the amendment to be approved — so it fell six votes short.

The dream looks dead.

The Senate failed Thursday afternoon to advance any of the four immigration bills that were put on the floor for a vote, unable to make any movement toward protecting young people brought illegally to the United States as children.

President Donald Trump’s administration threw cold water on the Senate’s bipartisan immigration solution Thursday — threatening to veto what was looking like the last best hope for lawmakers to pass a fix for a group of sympathetic undocumented immigrants whose deportation protections are at risk of expiring.

“The Administration is committed to finding a permanent, fair, and legal solution for DACA,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “But this Amendment would only compound the problem by encouraging millions of additional minors to be smuggled into the United States. We need to solve the problem, not perpetuate it indefinitely.”