Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was always meant to be a temporary solution. An executive order signed by President Obama in 2012, it was crafted only after sustained political pressure by young undocumented immigrants made action necessary, in the face of a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to pass even the mildest of legislative fixes. DACA was a victory, but an imperfect one that left the vast majority of undocumented immigrants outside of its protections: it excludes those who were born before an arbitrary cutoff date or who came to the United States after the age of 16, as well as young people who dropped out of school or have a criminal record. Still, it was a lifeline for the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who in the past seven years have been able to get a work permit, go to school, raise their families, and live their lives (relatively) free of the threat of deportation.
that will determine the future of DACA and, crucially, the limits of presidential power to craft immigration policy.
A loss at the Supreme Court, Briones said, “would mean that I’d lose my job, and I will not know what to do. I’d have to find a job where I can get paid under the table.” But he is keenly aware of DACA’s limitations. “My mom doesn’t have status, and there are members of the community and friends who didn’t qualify for DACA,” Briones said.
Briones, who was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, moved permanently to the United States when he was a teenager, along with his mother. Born with a vision impairment, he had been coming regularly to Dallas, Texas, since he was a baby in order to get medical care, and his family made the decision for him to stay when he was 14. He was getting his bachelor’s degree in economics at Texas State University in San Marcos when Obama created DACA.
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