The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, June 18, that the
Trump administration cannot immediately terminate the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects
undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from
deportation.
What happened?
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration may
not move forward with immediately rescinding DACA, which currently
allows approximately 700,000 young immigrants to live and work in
the U.S. under protected status.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who was the swing vote in the
decision, explained in his majority opinion that the administration
failed to provide an adequate reason for ending the program,
calling the attempt "arbitrary and capricious."
