Prof. Meili Quoted in MinnPost Regarding Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision on DACA

Professor Steve Meili was quoted in a MinnPost article regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision rejecting the Trump Administration’s efforts to scuttle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Because of that decision, over 700,000 “Dreamers” (undocumented persons brought to the U.S. as children and protected by DACA) need no longer fear imminent deportation. In the MinnPost article, Prof. Meili pointed out that the Supreme Court ruled on technical grounds, rather than the legality of DACA per se. It held that the reasons articulated by the Trump Administration for rescinding the program were arbitrary and capricous. This means that the Administration could revise its reasons in order to try and pass Supreme Court muster, but that is unlikely prior to the November elections. One item of note in the decision is that three of the Justices (Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas) would have invalidated the program entirely.