The Supreme Court’s refusal Monday to quickly hear the Trump administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals appeal was a legal and policy setback for the president, but the politics are more complicated.

President Trump announced in September that DACA, a program offering deportation protections and work permits to certain immigrants who were brought into the United States illegally as minors, would end March 5.

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