On June 18, 2020 the Supreme Court held that the Department of Homeland Security’s 2017 decision to terminate the DACA program was arbitrary and capricious, and had failed to properly take into account DHS’s significant responsibility under administrative law, to weigh the impact of its actions, noting specifically the significant reliance interests that had developed for DACA recipients since the program began in 2012. The decision, however, did not hold that DACA could not be terminated; it instead focused on DHS’s failure to provide a clear and well-articulated basis for implementing the wind-down of the program. At best, the decision puts the DACA termination on hold, but it leaves many questions unanswered for the fate of DACA recipients, for immigration policymaking, post DACA, and for an appropriate response from Congress to provide legal status for DACA recipients and so many others who have been failed by our broken immigration system. Please join the Commission on Immigration and the Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice for a discussion on these timely and pressing issues with a panel of extraordinary experts who will lead us through the short-term and long-term consequences of the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on the Trump administration’s immigration policy.

Topics:

• Accountability
• Reliance and Justice
• Examining the Impact of the Supreme Court’s DACA decision on DACA Recipients, Policymakers, and the Future of Immigration in the United States

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