DACA preserved, but the 'Dream' remains deferred

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By The Herald Editorial Board

For Lake Stevens’ Sergio Barrera and some 700,000 other “Dreamers” in the United States — and about 16,000 in Washington state — Thursday’s 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was a welcomed — and unexpected — relief.

“It was like a ton of weight was lifted off my shoulders,” Barrera, 25, working as teen director at the Everett YMCA, told The Daily Herald’s Jerry Cornfield. “A lot of us were expecting DACA to end. We were bracing for that.”

The decision means Barrera and others who qualified in the past for DACA again have protection from deportation and can continue their schooling and jobs. But the court’s decision is limited in scope, and a permanent solution will require action by Congress — and perhaps — a change in leadership in the U.S. Senate and the White House.

DACA, established by President Obama in 2012 by executive order, granted relief from deportation and the ability to work legally to those who crossed the border as children under the age of 16 with their undocumented parents. To be eligible, enrollees had to be in high school or have a diploma, or be a veteran who had served honorably, and had not been convicted of a felony or significant misdemeanor. About 700,000 to 800,000 had been enrolled in DACA before its suspension, and an estimated 1.3 million would be eligible currently under its requirements.

But President Trump moved to rescind DACA’s protections in 2017, and challenges to that decision have been working their way through the courts until last week’s Supreme Court ruling.

The court did not judge DACA on its merits; the decision faulted the Trump administration on procedural grounds, ruling it had not used reasoned decision making or followed the federal rule-making process in seeking to end the program. As well, it held the administration had not considered the effects of ending the program on DACA recipients.

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[Bev54]

1. The first thing the dems need to do

when they get into power in the senate is to get rid of the filibuster, better they do it now than let a republican senate do it down the road. The way the senate is set up is that republicans have a far better chance of having a majority than the dems ever will. Time to just get the work done while they can.