Supreme Court Blocks Trump Plan to End DACA Program

The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation, CNN reports.

The 5 to 4 decision ruled that President Trump illegally ended the “Dreamers” program, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the majority and joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonja Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

New York Times: “The court’s ruling was a blow to one of President Trump’s central campaign promises — that as president he would ‘immediately terminate’ an executive order by former President Barack Obama that Mr. Trump had called an illegal executive amnesty for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants.”