Speaker 1: And now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,
Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. Today, Bloomberg Law hosts
Speaker 1: June Grosso and Greig Store discussed the possibility the President
Speaker 1: Trump could rescind the d A c A Program or
Speaker 1: Deferred Action for childhood or Rivals, which was put in
Speaker 1: place by President Obama and protects nearly six hundred thousand immigrants.
Speaker 1: They speak to David Buyer, an immigration policy analyst at
Speaker 1: the Cato Institute, and Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy studies
Speaker 1: at the Center for Immigration Studies. David, before we get
Speaker 1: into what Trump might do, let's discuss where we are legally. UH.
Speaker 1: If Texas in the other states did amend their existing
Speaker 1: lawsuit to go after DHAKA, would they be likely to succeed?
Speaker 1: I would think they probably would succeed based on the
Speaker 1: prior rulings from that district cord as well as the
Speaker 1: Shit Circuit Court of Appeals. The President or his administration
Speaker 1: does not have the authority to grant lawful presence to
Speaker 1: people who are in the country illegally, which is what
Speaker 1: DOCCA does and UM Ultimately, as a result of that,
Speaker 1: it's likely that UH, this UH program would end through
Speaker 1: the court system. We have a more conservative Supreme Court
Speaker 1: now than we did when they ruled on the program
Speaker 1: in so it's likely that the Supreme Court would agree
Speaker 1: with the Fifth Circuit Jessica. Donald Trump has softened, at
Speaker 1: least in the press on the issue, at one point
Speaker 1: tell the Associated Press that the affected young immigrants could
Speaker 1: quote rest easy. The Department of Homeland Security has continued
Speaker 1: to grant two year renewable DOCTA work permits. What is
Speaker 1: Trump likely to do well? I wish I knew um,
Speaker 1: but he has a number of options. One thing he
Speaker 1: could do is too simple. Stop issuing new work permits
Speaker 1: to people who didn't have DOCCA before, because in effect,
Speaker 1: what he has been doing is expanding the DOCTA program.
Speaker 1: What remains to be seen as will he continued to
Speaker 1: renew these work permits for the people that had them,
Speaker 1: and that is very questionable also, and it has been
Speaker 1: clear from the actions of ICE that people who have
Speaker 1: DOCCA are not priorities for enforcement unless they have committed
Speaker 1: crimes or been causing some kind of other problems in
Speaker 1: their communities. You know, maybe what he should do a
Speaker 1: lot of people think the best thing would be to
Speaker 1: give Congress a deadline and say, look, you need to
Speaker 1: do something in the next six months or all of
Speaker 1: these people are going to start losing their eligibility to work.
Speaker 1: That's Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center
Speaker 1: for Immigration Studies, and David Buyer, an immigration policy analysts
Speaker 1: at the Cato Institute, speaking to Bloomberg Law hosts June
Speaker 1: Grasso and Greg Store. You can listen to Bloomberg Law
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