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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN 
FOR DACA RECIPIENTS? 
Local immigration attorney 
Ellie Mosko of Mosko Law PC 
put it this way: “DACA recipi-
ents … can now feel a little less 
anxiety. DACA was always a 
stopgap measure, a Band-Aid, 
imperfect at best. It gives peo-
ple the chance to live here, to 
work, to travel and return, to 
help family members. It does 
not lead to citizenship (for 
people who know no other 
country).
”
Mosko continued, “
Applying 
for DACA status is always 
a difficult choice. To apply, 
a person comes out of the 
shadows 
and exposes 
himself or 
herself to 
the govern-
ment. This 
gives rise to 
legitimate 
concerns in 
which a government could 
end such a program and turn 
around and target those pre-
viously protected and their 
families.
”
Furthermore, “Homeland 
Security has not yet issued 
guidelines for accepting new 
DACA applications.
” 
Sedler agreed the decision 
does not protect DACA recip-
ients from future deportation. 
“There is no security for 
‘
dreamers,
’
” 
he said. 
However, “for 
the foresee-
able future 
at least, they 
need not 
worry about 
losing that 
status. And public opinion is 
strongly in favor of their being 
able to remain in the U.S.
”

Questions about how the 
Trump administration will 
implement this ruling remain. 
According to Mosko, “the ini-
tial response from Homeland 
Security indicates that they 
consider DACA illegal.
” 
Chad Wolf, acting 
Homeland Security chief, 
simply said of DACA, “The 
program’
s unlawful.
” U.S. 
Citizenship and Immigration 
Services Deputy Director for 
Policy Joseph Edlow similarly 
rejects the Supreme Court 
decision: “Today’
s court opin-
ion has no basis in law and 
merely delays the President’
s 
lawful ability to end the 
illegal Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals amnesty 
program.
”
Legal historian Paul 
Finkelman, president of 
Gratz College in greater 
Philadelphia, finds Edlow’
s 
statement 
“disturbing.
”
“
Almost 
all American 
Jews are the 
children, 
grandchil-
dren and 
great-grand-
children of refugees,
” 
Finkelman said. “Thus, we 
should be applauding this rul-
ing on DACA, which reinvig-
orates our nation as a refuge 
of ‘
the tired, the poor, the hud-
dled masses, yearning to be 
free’
 as the Jewish poet Emma 
Lazarus wrote in the poem 
that is on the Statue of Liberty.
”
According to Mosko, the 
court did not address the 
legality of the original DACA 
program. “In effect,
” she said, 
“the court creates a roadmap 
for the Trump administration 
to try again following the 
appropriate legal process.
” 

Robert Sedler

Paul Finkelman

Ellie Mosko

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