What’s next for the ‘dreamers’?

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Robert Barnes reports on the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA. We hear from dreamers about what’s next and why their fight isn’t over. And Marc Fisher on the elderly people becoming radio DJs to connect with one another.

Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA, a win for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Coronavirus isolated them in their rooms. Now, old-age home residents reconnect by spinning Elvis on the radio.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.7	It's Thursday, June 18th.
0:23.3	Today the Supreme Court's ruling on DACA and what it means for the future of dreamers.
0:28.8	Plus, pirate radio in the pandemic.
0:36.8	On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court came out with a long awaited decision.
0:41.5	They have blocked the Trump administration from ending the DACA program, at least for now.
0:46.8	And it's a huge victory for dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children,
0:52.0	and still don't have permanent legal status.
0:55.1	Many of those dreamers were outside the Supreme Court on Thursday.
1:01.0	I'm definitely going to go home and hug my parents.
1:03.1	Hopefully I can celebrate with my other DACA friends.
1:05.3	And we can just look at the future.
1:07.9	The future we want, not the future that is limited to us.
1:12.2	I graduated from college this past May.
1:15.8	It's been so much uncertainty.
1:22.5	And uncertainty has become part of my life.
1:25.5	Well, it was a very big decision and one that was a bit of a surprise.
1:30.8	Robert Barnes covers the Supreme Court for the Post.
1:36.6	Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court's four liberals and stopped the Trump administration's
1:42.7	attempt to dismantle DACA, the program that has protected from deportation hundreds of
1:50.2	thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children.
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