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嘿嘿视频 professors discuss Supreme Court DACA decision 

By Leigh Houck

The United States Supreme Court voted to uphold DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) on June 18, but questions remain as to what this means for students at 嘿嘿视频 and others.

In the words of 嘿嘿视频 Chancellor Gary S. May on the day the decision was handed down: 鈥淭oday, we stand united with our undocumented community in applauding the Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling and reaffirming our .鈥

This decision came as a relief for the thousands of undocumented students in the University of California system. It was also a full circle moment for the UC System, which sued the Trump Administration for their decision to end DACA in 2017 that landed in the highest court in the country. Professors on law and sociology weighed in on the decision and its meaning for students and the nation at large through media and academic blogs. We distill some of that here.

is the dean of the 嘿嘿视频 School of Law, the Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and a Professor of Chicana/o Studies. Johnson wrote about the eight major immigration decisions made in the 2019-20 Supreme Court term in a blog post . In another article, written for the Global Migration Center, Johnson specifically discusses the history of DACA and what the recent Supreme Court decision means for the program鈥檚 future. In that article, Johnson boiled down the background simply: DACA came about because of an inability to develop a comprehensive immigration reform for the United States.

鈥淒espite years of debate, Congress has been unable to come to agreement on much-needed comprehensive immigration reform legislation.  A fundamental and enduring sticking point that has thwarted compromise on reform is the question whether to provide a path to legalization for the approximately eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.鈥 

He continued: 鈥淲ith Congress unable to pass immigration reform, the Obama administration in 2012 announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. Based on the well-established practice of prosecutorial discretion, the policy provided temporary relief from removal to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.鈥

In his piece, Johnson further cautions that despite the Supreme Court decision, DACA could be under fire from the Trump Administration again in the future. He states that 鈥... it remains true that DACA is only a limited 鈥榝ix鈥 for some noncitizens without legal status. Only Congress can bring about meaningful and lasting immigration reform.鈥 Read that full article, 鈥淒ACA in Three Acts:  Genesis, Impacts, Future,鈥 .

is an assistant professor of sociology, an executive committee member of the , and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Poverty Research and the Human Rights Program. Patler, co-authored with sociology colleague an 鈥淪upreme Court decision is welcome news for DACA recipients but program remains vulnerable鈥 for the publication CalMatters. Patler was also featured in a recent segment on KRCA. Alongside an undocumented 嘿嘿视频 graduate student, she discusses in that interview the importance and benefits of DACA for undocumented people. According to the KCRA reporter Brandi Cummings, 鈥淧atler says that DACA has support on both sides of the political aisle and ending it would devastate economies.鈥

Read 嘿嘿视频 Chancellor May鈥檚 full statement on the DACA decision here

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