(Newswire.net— June 19, 2020) — The United States Supreme Court has blocked a decision by President Donald Trump’s administration to abolish the DACA program, a program that was designed to protect young people from deportation.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, aka DACA program, was introduced in 2012 by President Barack Obama as a stopgap measure to act as a shield from deportation for people who were brought into the United States as children and did not have citizenship or legal residency status, The NY Times reports.
The program mostly aided people from South America, who entered the United States illegally as children but were educated in the United States and later obtained work permits. The program does not include citizenship, though.
The court decided with five votes that were for to annul the decision of the Trump’s administration and with four votes against.
The court assessed as “arbitrary” and “whimsical” the decision of the Trump administration to end the program of protection of migrants younger than 30 from expulsion from the USA.
These young people, about 700,000, were called “dreamers” and came to the United States illegally.
The verdict, however, does not prevent President Trump from trying to close the program again, but, according to Reuters, that will most likely not happen before the November 3 elections, in which Trump is seeking a second four-year term.
“Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?” Trump tweeted after court ruling on DACA and only three days after the court ruled against the administration in an LGBTQ rights case.
“These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else,” Trump wrote on his Twitter after the court’s decision came in. He also claims that what America needs is a legal and not a political solution.
“As President of the United States, I am asking for a legal solution on DACA, not a political one, consistent with the rule of law. The Supreme Court is not willing to give us one, so now we have to start this process all over again,” Trump tweeted.
His tweet brought a bunch of negative reactions. “You literally want to kick people who grew up as Americans out of our country. These are doctors, lawyers, police officers, and military personnel. The court didn’t rule “politically.” They ruled with our forefather’s ideals at heart. You are just pure evil,” stated one of the comments.
Barack Obama welcomed the court’s ruling and wrote on his Twitter account: “Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation. Today, I’m happy for them, their families, and all of us. We may look different and come from everywhere, but what makes us American are our shared ideals…!” Mr. Obama wrote.
Former US President Barack Obama created the DACA program after Congress failed to pass bilateral legislation that would revise US immigration policy and offer protection to immigrants known as “Dreamers”, which came from the name of the immigration law.