At the Supreme Court: A Big Day for DACA, and a Bad Day for Trump
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This week, in a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled unlawful the Trump Administration’s decision to cancel the DACA program. DACA protects from deportation some seven hundred thousand undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Though DACA and the “Dreamers” that it protects have widespread public support, the Trump Administration remains hostile to the program. Jonathan Blitzer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss DACA’s big day in court, and the Trump Administration’s next moves on immigration policy.
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| 1:23.9 | Last week, in a surprise five to four decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration's 2017 cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, was unlawful. |
| 1:38.7 | DACA, which was introduced by President Obama in 2012, protects from deportation over 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came |
| 1:47.6 | to the U.S. children. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that the Department |
| 1:54.0 | of Homeland Security had failed to provide a recent explanation for the administration's decision |
| 2:00.1 | to rescind the program. |
| 2:02.7 | Luis Cortez, an immigration lawyer on the team defending DACA before the court, himself a DACA recipient, |
| 2:09.4 | spoke on the program Democracy Now about the decision. |
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