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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY v. 
REGENTS OF UNIV. OF CAL. 
Opinion of the Court 

types of benefits is an interest “courts often are called upon 
to protect.”  Chaney, 470 U. S., at 832.  See also Barnhart v. 
Thomas, 540 U. S. 20 (2003) (reviewing eligibility determi-
nation for Social Security benefits).

Because the DACA program is more than a non-enforce-
ment  policy,  its  rescission  is  subject  to  review  under  the
APA. 

B 
The  Government  also  invokes  two  jurisdictional  provi-
sions  of  the  INA  as  independent  bars  to  review.    Neither 
applies.

Section 1252(b)(9) bars review of claims arising from “ac-
tion[s]” or “proceeding[s] brought to remove an alien.”  66 
Stat.  209,  as  amended,  8  U. S. C.  §1252(b)(9).    That  tar-
geted language is not aimed at this sort of case.  As we have 
said  before,  §1252(b)(9)  “does  not  present  a  jurisdictional 
bar” where those bringing suit “are not asking for review of
an order of removal,” “the decision . . . to seek removal,” or 
“the process by which . . . removability will be determined.” 
Jennings v. Rodriguez, 583 U. S. ___, ___–___ (2018) (plu-
rality opinion) (slip op., at 10–11); id., at ___ (BREYER, J., 
dissenting)  (slip  op.,  at  31).  And  it  is  certainly  not  a  bar
where, as here, the parties are not challenging any removal 
proceedings.

Section 1252(g) is similarly narrow.  That provision limits 
review of cases “arising from” decisions “to commence pro-
ceedings,  adjudicate  cases,  or  execute  removal  orders.” 
§1252(g).  We have previously rejected as “implausible” the
Government’s  suggestion  that  §1252(g)  covers  “all  claims
arising from deportation proceedings” or imposes “a general 
jurisdictional  limitation.”    Reno  v.  American-Arab  Anti-
Discrimination Comm., 525 U. S. 471, 482 (1999).  The re-
scission, which revokes a deferred action program with as-
sociated  benefits,  is  not  a  decision  to  “commence  proceed-
ings,”  much  less  to  “adjudicate”  a  case  or  “execute”  a