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"I would give you, that he was not necessarily or consistently explicit about deporting them. But he was very explicit about Ending their amnesty."

This is salient.

The President's Phoenix speech was unmistakable (and unmistakably correct) - no DAPA, no DACA. They were not just unconstitutional, they were extraconstitutional.

But even then, as you say, the when and how they gots to go is unclear.

And as others mention, the President is well within the Constitution to use his Executive Office to do exactly whatever he wants with DACA/Dreamers.

To that point, Juan Manuel Montes is a blueprint for how DACA/Dreamers should be handled going forward.

First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump

The takeaway from all this: it's a shitty way for the Admin to attempt to bury DACA/Dreamers in a Friday news dump underneath the unrelated Trump Twitter flurry this morning; and the raison d'etre for sustaining Dreamers is too Bush-y for comfort (not Yeb!, who would have gassed up Fidelity IV and brought Mexicans in one large family at a time; but rather in the manner of George, a la his Chamber of Commerce-cheap-labor-force approach).

EVEN SO, the underlying thread of this thread is that we all know there are two key immigration problems that must be solved immediately:

Third Wavers in the name of MS-13, numerous cartel magnates, and random jackleg criminals who need to go - now.
Gibmedats without portfolio.

The first group threaten nat sec; the second group threaten our national budget (and yeah, thusly our nat sec, but we're not defaulting tomorrow, particularly under a growth president).

If we have to take one at a time, ok, but patience is not a virtue regarding illegality, ever.