Donald Trump has lost an attempt to fast-track the deportation of Dreamers, following the Supreme Court declining the administration’s request from late last month “to consider by the end of the month whether to take up a case” around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
“The order does not, however, prevent the possibility that the justices could announce by the end of the term that they will take up one of the pending cases for next term,” CNN reports. “Monday's order means it's unlikely, although still possible, that the court will take up the issue before all the lower courts have ruled.”
“Immigrant rights groups involved in the Maryland case urged the Supreme Court not to expedite the case,” NBC News reports, writing that "no court to consider the issue has held that DACA is unlawful.” It’s been lower courts that have forced the administration to reinstate the program, though only partially: first-time applicants are not allowed to enroll, nor are undocumented youth who are aging into eligibility. Immigrant rights advocates have continued to urge eligible DACA beneficiaries to renew their protections as soon as possible.
In asking the Supreme Court to fast-track their proceedings, the administration’s solicitor general laughably “suggested that efforts by Congress to address the situation of those covered under DACA were being stymied by the ongoing court cases.” Nope, it’s been congressional Republicans who are guilty of that, because it’s been under Democratic leadership that legislation that would permanently protect undocumented youth is finally going to the House floor this week.