DACA Could Face Its Effective End With Conflicting Court Orders

The DACA program may soon find itself in the center of what some say is a never-before-seen legal conundrum: directly conflicting court orders.

Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas this week is considering a case challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. And there’s a good chance he’ll order that it be shut down, forcing the Department of Homeland Security to choose between complying with the shutdown order and other, existing court directives to keep the program running.

“I am fairly certain this never happened before,” law professor ...