UPDATED: Arizona Politicos React To Supreme Court DACA Ruling

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Few Arizona politicos swiftly reacted to the news that the Supreme Court ruled today against the Trump administration’s effort to end DACA, the Obama-era program which offers protections to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

Roberts made it clear that this decision is not a ruling on the merits for or against DACA, or the effort to get rid of it. Rather, the Court found the Trump Administration bungled the procedural work on DACA.

Roberts writes the 5-4 decision, “Here the agency failed to consider the conspicuous issues of whether to retain forbearance and what if anything to do about the hardship to DACA recipients.” The case is remanded back to DHS “so that it may consider the problem anew.”

In his dissent, Justice Thomas says the decision is “an effort to avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision.”

Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Part IV. Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan joined that opinion in full, and Sotomayor joined as to all but Part IV. Justice Sotomayor filed an opinion concurring in part, concurring in the judgment in part, and dissenting in part. Justice Thomas filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part, in which Justices Alito and Gorsuch joined. Justices Alito and Kavanaugh filed opinions concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part.

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