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In this Dec. 15, 2018, file photo, Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
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J.D. Long García
Today’s court decision removes any judicial check on the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track the deportations of asylum seekers who cannot show strong evidence of persecution in their home countries.
Activists and supporters block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Oct. 8, 2019, as it hears arguments in three major employment discrimination cases on whether federal civil rights law prohibiting workplace discrimination on the "basis of sex" covers gay and transgender employees. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
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Michael J. O’Loughlin
The short answer is: it is unlikely.
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Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
DACA was implemented in 2012 under an executive order from President Barack Obama, but in 2017, the Trump administration rescinded it with its own executive order.
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The Editors
Congress must stop passing the buck to the courts and do the work of passing a just immigration law.
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Mark Sherman - Associated Press
The justices rejected administration arguments that the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal.
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Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution for Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16, saying the state prison officials need to reexamine their rule that bans clergy from being with prisoners to the execution chamber.