The Department of Homeland Security has released several documents related to this morning’s announcement that DACA is being rescinded. These include:
Earlier this morning, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the DACA program is unconstitutional and is being “rescinded” by the Trump Administration. During his remarks, he added that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has started the “orderly wind down” of the program.
DHS has posted the following memo on the steps that it is taking to end DACA.
Federal Relations will continue to provide updates.
After voting on a number of nominees for Administration positions yesterday, the Senate followed the lead of the House and left town for a shortened August recess.
Although the members of the Senate left Washington yesterday, the chamber will hold pro forma sessions every three days to prevent recess appointments, should dramatic things occur in the context of the Russia investigations during the remainder of the month.
According to a document obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday, the Justice Department may be looking to take on colleges and universities that use race-based admission policies that discriminate against white applicants. Additional information about this potential development is available here and here.
A federal judge in Hawaii has ruled that the list of relatives created by the Trump Administration in its attempt to define a “bona fide” relationship with respect to its modified travel ban against six majority-Muslim nations is too narrow. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a limited ban to go into effect and is scheduled to hear the case against the ban next year.
With respect to family members, the judge ruled yesterday that the government could not limit its definition of “bona fide” relationship to spouses, parents, parents-in-law, children, siblings and step- or half-siblings, sons- and daughters-in-law, and fiances. The judge ruled that the ban did not apply to other relatives, including grandparents and grandchildren, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews, cousins, and brothers- and sisters-in law.