DACA Remains in Force After Landmark Supreme Court Decision
In its second landmark decision this week (opens in new tab), the Supreme Court voted against President Trump's call to end DACA (opens in new tab), the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals This is a huge victory for hundreds of thousands of children, known as "Dreamers," who will be kept safe from deportation.
The Obama-era law allows immigrant children who entered the country before their 16th birthday before June 2007 to live and work in the United States. The Supreme Court voted 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the fifth vote, saying that the Trump administration's request to suspend the law was "arbitrary and capricious." Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor also voted in favor of maintaining DACA.
The White House may try to repeal DACA again, but as NBC News' Pete Williams (opens in new tab) says, "The White House may not want to end such a popular program in the middle of a presidential election." Naturally, people are overjoyed by the decision - especially after the Supreme Court voted in favor of protecting LGBTQ rights in the workplace just days earlier.
The full text of the Supreme Court's decision can be read here (opens in new tab).
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