Updates | The Week of June 19, 2017
President Trump will not immediately halt the “Dreamers” program, also known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), contrary to his campaign promises (NYTimes).
- However, the U.S. government will deport immigrant parents of American citizens and lawful permanent residents who were protected under President Obama’s DAPA plan (Lyle Denniston Law News).
- Josh Blackman comments that as a result of the cancellation of DAPA, U.S. v. Texas should come to an end.
Evangelicals are urging President Trump to reconsider policies that have led to arrests of Christian Iraqi immigrants (WaPo).
- The ACLU has filed suit to stop the deportation of 114 Iraqi nationals (Religion Clause).
- The ACLU complaint can be found here and the ACLU press release here.
The Supreme Court ruled in Maslenjak v. U.S. that a naturalized immigrant can lose his citizenship for lying to the government only if the lie would have led officials to deny citizenship or obscured facts likely to lead to a denial. (SCOTUSblog, Politico, WaPo)
- The opinion is here.