COURT/DREAMERS/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday [5-15-18] questioned the Trump administration’s rationale for canceling an Obama-era initiative that offered deportation protections and work permits to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. During a roughly 75-minute oral argument in Pasadena, Calif., a three-judge panel on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered whether the administration acted lawfully when it decided last September to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. About 800,000 people, referred to by supporters as Dreamers, have participated in DACA since the Obama administration implemented it in 2012, and roughly 690,000 are enrolled now. The program has been available to students and graduates who were brought to the U.S. under the age of 16, haven’t committed serious crimes and met certain other criteria. In rescinding the program, the Department of Homeland Security cited the views of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who said DACA was an unconstitutional exercise of power by the Obama administration without authorization from Congress. Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw suggested Mr. Sessions’ conclusion was thin on legal analysis.”
-Brent Kendall, “Appeals Court Questions Grounds for Canceling Policy on ‘Dreamers’,” The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2018 8:28 pm