
Symposium: DACA is unlawful
Elizabeth Murrill is the Solicitor General of Louisiana. The federal government should prevail in the DACA cases for one straightforward reason: DACA is unlawful.
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Elizabeth Murrill is the Solicitor General of Louisiana. The federal government should prevail in the DACA cases for one straightforward reason: DACA is unlawful.

Melissa Crow is a senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project.

Christopher J. Hajec is Director of Litigation at the Immigration Reform Law Institute. At first, it might seem that a trio of cases before the Supreme Court involve only the lawfulness of the government’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, not the lawfulness of the program itself.
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is an immigration attorney, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and founding director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law – University Park. She has served as an expert or co-counsel in litigation in defense of DACA.
Josh Blackman is associate professor of law at South Texas College of Law Houston and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Ilya Shapiro is director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.
Dayna Zolle is Appellate Counsel and Brianne Gorod is Chief Counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump made news when he suggested, repeatedly, that he views the Supreme Court as an ally, one he can count on to give him a “fair shake” when he thinks that other courts won’t.
In 2012, the Obama administration established a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allows undocumented young adults who came to the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation.