Federal judge considering declaring work permits for DACA unlawful

 Breitbart:

A Texas judge may strike down President Barack Obama’s 2012 DACA amnesty for roughly 700,000 illegal migrants — and undermine other giveaway programs that allow U.S. employers to keep foreign workers in jobs needed by Americans.

In a December 22 hearing, the pro-migration supporters of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty asked District Judge Andrew Hanen to preserve the award of work permits, regardless of the economic impact on non-college Americans.

Hanen called the hearing after Texas, and other states filed a lawsuit to have the DACA amnesty declared illegal.

The work permits are the primary benefit and biggest legal question mark in Obama’s DACA giveaway, in part, because neither he nor President Donald Trump ever made any serious effort to repatriate the illegals or their parents back to their home countries.

“The strongest part of the case against DACA is the work permit benefit,” said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, which seeks to reduce legal and illegal immigration.

“When it comes down to it, the real question is: ‘Where did Congress give these [DACA] people work permits?’ … Congress didn’t do that, [Obama’s deputies] just went and did it, and that implicates all these other [work permit] programs, so no-one wants to talk about it.”

The Texas case will likely force judges to grapple with the legality of various work permit programs that suppress wage raises by keeping roughly two million foreign contract workers and intending immigrants in U.S. jobs, he said.

The work permits, dubbed Employment Authorization Documents (EADs), allowed the DACA migrants to get jobs. Most of the DACA beneficiaries compete for jobs against blue collar Americans, who saw few wage rases from 2000 to 2019.

Only a small share of the DACA migrants hold white collar jobs where they would compete with journalists and progressives for college-graduate jobs.
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The Supreme Court decision on DACA never made any sense to me as a legal matter.  It seems to be based more on empathy for the DACA group than legal considerations.  But as the facts of this case suggest, the granting of the permits has a negative impact on citizens that are blue collar workers.