DAPA Case Study

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The Supreme Court should should affirm that the State of Texas has standing to challenge the immigration executive orders that have been placed as it has sustained multiple injuries that were caused by DAPA. DAPA directly imposed substantial costs associated with issuing additional driver’s licenses; it also required additional health care, law enforcement, and education expenditures. Even if only a small fraction of DAPA recipients applied for driver’s licenses, Texas would incur millions of dollars in costs and it would hurt its state economy. These injuries would easily allow Texas establish standing for any ordinary litigant. In addition Rumsfeld v. Forum for Acad. & Inst. Rights, Inc held that “One party with standing is sufficient to satisfy Article III’s case-or-controversy requirement.” The opposition claims Texas does not have standing as it can avoid the harms that is caused by DAPA through a change of policy or behavior and that the injuries it sustained aren’t enough to get standing. They claim, Texas could avoid the driver’s-license-cost injury only by changing its policy and making driver’s licenses less …show more content…

Section 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) generally requires a federal agency or branch to provide public notice and an opportunity for comment on any proposed rule and the president did not do this. Moreover, Nat’l Park Hospitality Ass’n v. Dep’t of Interior states that an agency action must be tentative to count as a general statement of policy. DAPA is not tentative at all. It was immediately implemented and states began granting Expanded-DACA permits to over 100,000 aliens in under three months. This has put a definite strain on the nation’s resources, especially finance-wise. So, putting in a nationwide injunction on these executive orders will help slow down the naturalization process and help the states adjust their finances

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