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In the second ruling, issued in July, the court abandoned the 40-year-old “Chevron deference” precedent, under which federal courts tended to defer to agency interpretations of statutes that were found to be legally ambiguous, if the interpretations were “reasonable.”

“The DHS leadership will probably defer to Homan to a greater extent than Cabinet secretaries and agency heads have deferred to prior czars,” said a former ICE official who worked with Homan during the Obama administration.

She thinks Gen Z feels less obligated to their employer than previous generations, who may have been willing to work late without extra pay, take meetings during vacations and defer to their employers.

The ruling, handed down on Thursday from three Republican judicial appointees, cited the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of the long-held precedent of "Chevron deference," which asked lower courts to defer to federal agencies' interpretation of the law.

In a case from Wisconsin, the justices will reconsider that approach and decide whether instead to require the states to defer to religious authorities.