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Saturday 19 January 2019
Supreme Court inaction suggests DACA safe for another year

By MARK SHERMAN sas.
Associated Press The Obama administration
WASHINGTON (AP) — The created the DACA pro-
Obama-era program that gram in 2012 to provide
shields young immigrants work permits and protec-
from deportation and that tion from deportation to
President Donald Trump people who, in many cas-
has sought to end seems es, have no memory of any
likely to survive for at least home other than the Unit-
another year. ed States.
That's because the Su- The Trump administration
preme Court took no ac- has said it moved to end
tion Friday on the Trump the program under the
administration's request to threat of a lawsuit from Tex-
decide by early summer as and other states, raising
whether Trump's bid to end the prospect of a chaotic
the Deferred Action for end.
Childhood Arrivals program Then-Attorney General Jeff
was legal. The program has Sessions determined DACA
been protected by several to be unlawful because
federal courts. President Barack Obama
Based on the high court's did not have the authority
usual practices, the earliest to adopt it in the first place.
the justices would hear ar- In this Jan. 23, 2018, file photo, immigration advocates hold a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sessions cited a 2015 rul-
guments in the case would Associated Press ing by the federal appeals
be this fall, if they decide to court in New Orleans that
hear the case at all. If argu- some young immigrants to its calendar for decision On immigration, the ad- blocked a separate im-
ments take place in Octo- who challenged the ad- by late June. Other pend- ministration sought to end migration policy imple-
ber, a decision would not ministration's plans. ing appeals involve Indi- DACA in 2017, but federal mented by Obama and
be likely before 2020, when Trump and Congress could ana abortion restrictions, courts in California, New the expansion of the DACA
it could affect the presi- take the issue out of the whether the main federal York and Washington, DC, program.
dential campaign. court's hands altogether employment discrimination have prevented it from Texas and other Republi-
The administration "never if they strike a deal on the law protects LGBT people doing so. A federal judge can-led states eventually
asked for a stay of the rul- program known as DACA, and Trump's policy to limit in Texas has declared the did sue and won a partial
ings below which to us in- perhaps even in negotia- military service by transgen- program is illegal, but re- victory in a federal court in
dicated it has known all tions to end the partial gov- der people. The court also fused to order it halted. Texas.
along that there's no real ernment shutdown. has yet to act on a sepa- DACA has protected about Civil rights groups, advo-
rush to resolve these impor- The immigration case is rate administration request 700,000 people who were cates for immigrants and
tant issues," said Theodore among several high-profile to let the transgender poli- brought to the U.S. illegally Democratic-led states all
Boutrous Jr., a lawyer in Los issues the court has appar- cy take effect, even before as children or came with have sued to prevent the
Angeles who represents ently decided not to add the case is decided. families that overstayed vi- end of the program.q
Border Patrol arrests 376 who

dug under barrier in Arizona

the Bush administration to people, mostly from Cen- The southwest Arizona des-
weld steel plates to a bar- tral America, who turned ert is less remote but arrests
rier made of steel bollards themselves in to agents in a have also sharply increased
that had been designed highly remote part of New after years of relative quiet.
to stop people in vehicles, Mexico. The agency said The Border Patrol's Yuma
not on foot, Border Patrol many needed medical sector made 7,857 arrests
This Monday, Jan. 14, 2019 photo released by U.S. Customs and spokesman Jose Garibay care. in October and Novem-
Border Protection shows some of 376 Central Americans the Bor- said. In those spots, there is Large numbers of Guate- ber, more than double the
der Patrol says it arrested in southwest Arizona, the vast majority
of them families, who used short holes dug under a barrier to no concrete footing to pre- malan families and unac- same period a year earlier.
cross the border in multiple spots about 10 miles east of San Luis, vent digging. companied children are Despite a surge in asy-
Ariz. The group used multiple surrendering to immigration lum-seeking families from
holes in an apparent ef- agents in Antelope Wells, Central America in recent
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (AP) — A of a border crossing in San fort to get everyone across New Mexico, where 7-year- months, border arrests re-
group of 376 Central Ameri- Luis and made no effort to the border quickly, Garibay old Jakelin Caal and her main low by historical stan-
cans was arrested in south- elude immigration agents. said. father were found Dec. 6 dards.
west Arizona, the vast ma- They included 176 children. Customs and Border Pro- with 161 others. The Border Patrol made
jority of them families who The unusually large group tection released photos Caal started vomiting on 396,579 arrests on the Mexi-
dug short, shallow holes was almost entirely from and video of a long line of the bus ride to the near- can border in the 2018 fis-
under a barrier to cross the Guatemala. They were tak- migrants standing patient- est Border Patrol station 94 cal year, up 30 percent
border, authorities said Fri- en to Yuma after entering ly on a desert road's dirt miles (150 kilometers) away from a 46-year low during
day. the country Monday. shoulder after they were and had stopped breath- the same period a year
The group dug under a steel The area became a major stopped. ing by the time she arrived. earlier but still well below a
barrier in seven spots about corridor for illegal crossings On. Jan. 9, the Border Pa- She died at a hospital in El high of more than 1.6 mil-
10 miles (16 kilometers) east in the mid-2000s, prompting trol arrested a group of 247 Paso, Texas. lion in 2000.q