Andrés Correa, partner at Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann.
On June 18 during historic unrest and national uncertainty, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered from the dredges of administrative law a decision hardly landmark, but certainly consequential.
In Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California and two companion cases, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for a bare majority of the Court, kept the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) program in place, for now. DACA protects from deportation, and gives work permits to, approximately 700,000 young immigrants with no lawful status who have clean criminal records and pursue higher education.
