Prof. Paoletti explains that DACA case’s central issue is the extent of executive authority

https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-us-daca/30686568.html

On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (known as DACA), temporarily protecting some 700,000 people who arrived in the country as young undocumented, immigrants.

Shortly after the decision came out, Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, said on Twitter: “The Supreme Court held today that President Obama’s DACA program is clearly illegal.”

That Statement is false.

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Transnational Legal Clinic students ‘learn fast and work hard in a broken system’

Passing through the gate of the double-barbed-wire fence surrounding the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Meroua Zouai L’20 thought about the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policies and the people who bore the brunt of their cruelty — her clients. As a student in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Transnational Legal Clinic, she had been granted a glimpse inside the U.S.’s punitive immigration system, and she was deeply frustrated with what she saw.

Between a legal apparatus that seemed “designed to retraumatize” her clients, the “unconscionable” conditions in which they were “caged” while awaiting trial, and the sheer intensity of the “fear and despair on their faces,” Zouai sometimes felt paralyzed by the scale of the injustice facing people seeking asylum in the U.S.

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