CNN By Ariane de Vogue 8/20/2019
The Justice Department told the Supreme Court late Monday night that the Trump administration acted lawfully when it decided in 2017 to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation.
"At best, DACA is legally questionable," Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued in legal briefs. "At worst, it is illegal."
Francisco stressed that the executive branch was within its authority to phase out the Obama-era program and that the lower courts "erred" in "second-guessing" the Department of Homeland Security's "entirely rational judgment to stop facilitating ongoing violations of federal law on a massive scale."
As things stand, two nationwide preliminary injunctions issued by lower courts have forced DHS to continue to allow renewals in the program for nearly two years.
The legal brief comes as the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case on November 12.
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