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Supreme Court Rules to Keep DACA in Place

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court of the United States issued a 5-4 ruling today upholding the legality of  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program allows immigrants who arrived in the country as children -- but don’t have permanent legal status or a path to legal status -- to receive protection from deportation and permission to work. For the past eight years, around 800,000 people have participated in DACA, working in what are now deemed essential jobs: helping feed the nation, caring for coronavirus patients, and serving in the military.  The Obama-era program had been in limbo since 2017, when President Donald Trump announced he was ending the program and called it illegal. The program, which some studies suggest was hugely popular with Americans, can now remain in place. We discuss the decision and what could happen next for immigration reform.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From Krasny. Coming up next on Forum, the U.S. Supreme Court today blocked President

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Trump's attempt to dismantle DACA, the program that protects undocumented immigrants who came

1:06.1

to the U.S.'s children from deportation and allowed them to work. In a five to four decision written by Chief

1:12.5

Justice John Roberts, the court ruled that the Trump administration didn't follow the necessary

1:17.3

procedures to end the program and didn't sufficiently weigh how ending the program would affect

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the recipients. The decision is seen by some as a major blow to Trump, who promised in 2017 to end the Obama administration program despite its popularity with voters.

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We'll discuss the ruling and what could happen next for the 700,000 Dreamers.

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That's next after this news.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny in a rebuke to President Donald Trump.

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued a five to four ruling today upholding the legality of deferred action for childhood arrivals program.

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Chief Justice John Roberts cast a decisive fifth vote and wrote in the opinion that the Department of Homeland Security's decision to rescindaca was arbitrary and capricious under the

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Administrative Procedure Act. The program allows immigrants who arrived in the country as children,

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but don't have permanent legal status or a path to legal status, to receive protection from

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