'In case you were harboring any doubts over the role immigration will play in the 2020 presidential campaign, the Supreme Court on Friday morning all but guaranteed it will be front and center next spring,' writes Scott Martelle for latimesopinion
to use prosecutorial discretion in determining which deportation cases to pursue. It struck him and many, many others as unfair to deport people who’d been brought to the U.S. without a say in the matter, who were then raised and educated here, and who, in many cases, are Americans in every way except legal status. And many of them have few ties to the countries in which they were born; they may not even speak the language there.
It also made little sense from a policy standpoint that we should cast out people we had invested in educating. Why send them away rather than letting them use their educations to become more fully a part of American society and the economy? But the hard-liners surrounding Trump embrace a scorched-earth mindset that means even those migrants must go, and Sessions concocted an argument that Obama lacked the constitutional authority to defer those prosecutions — an argument that hinges on technical points about individualized findings versus a sweeping policy.
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