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For months now, the Supreme Court has sat on cases around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but that could soon change, because the justices will meet behind closed doors on Thursday to decide whether they’ll take up the issue in the fall.
“The news that the justices have decided to at least discuss the case at their regularly scheduled conference suggests that there may be some appetite to take up the case next term,” CNN reports, “which could mean that a decision would be rendered during the heart of the 2020 presidential campaign.”
Numerous lower courts as recently as May have found that the Trump administration illegally ended the program, which allows undocumented youth to apply for two-year work permits and protection from deportation. DACA has been immensely popular, with hundreds of thousands of young people enrolling in the program since it was rolled out by the Obama administration in 2012.
After derailing numerous bipartisan proposals that would have resolved the crisis he created, Trump is now hoping the Supreme Court will do his dirty work for him and end DACA once and for all. Should the justices decide this week to take up the case, a decision would likely come around mid-2020. In the meantime, eligible youth should keep renewing their DACA status.