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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Protections for DACA

Posted by: Kate Prince on Jun 18, 2020
News Type: U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld legal protections for young immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, also known as DACA, rejecting efforts to end the program, the Tennessean reports. The DACA program provides work permits and social security numbers to immigrants brought into the country without documentation as children or on visas that later expired. President Donald Trump and his administration argued the program was illegal and sought to end DACA entirely, but the high court blocked those efforts in today’s 5-4 ruling. "We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. "We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action. Here the agency failed to consider the conspicuous issues of whether to retain forbearance and what if anything to do about the hardship to DACA recipients."

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