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Agence France-Presse

The US Supreme Court dealt President Donald Trump’s efforts to choke off immigration a fresh blow on Thursday when it rejected his cancellation of the DACA programme protecting 700,000 “Dreamers”, undocumented migrants brought to the United States as children.
The high court said Trump’s 2017 move to cancel his predecessor Barack Obama’s landmark Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme was “arbitrary and capricious” under government administrative procedures.
The judgment on a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court’s four liberal members, stressed that it was not an assessment of the correctness of the 2012 DACA programme itself.
Instead, they said the Trump administration had violated official government procedures in the way they sought to quickly rescind DACA in September 2017 based on weak legal justifications.

Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020

The ruling suggested there are legal administrative methods Trump could use to cancel DACA, putting the onus back on the administration if it wants to pursue the issue.
Immigration champions and Dreamers cheered the narrow ruling.
“Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation,” Obama tweeted.
“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.”

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…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the ruling prolonged the life of a programme she said was supported by three-quarters of Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike.
“This way is the American way and I’m very proud of it,” she said.
Jesus Contreras, a Houston paramedic under DACA who came to the US from Mexico as a child, said he had prepared for the worst.
“I know it is not the end of the battle,” he said.
Lawsuit against Trump’s ‘racist’ plan to end DACA may proceed
“We still have to fight for legislation, but right now it is a good feeling to know that we are protected and safe, at least for now,” he said.
On Twitter, Trump turned the decision into a call to support him in the November presidential election so that he can appoint more conservative justices to the high court.
“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,” Trump wrote. “We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!”

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. Vote Trump 2020!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020

The decision came three and a half years after Trump entered office promising to halt almost all immigration and to expel the more than 10 million people estimated living in the country, many for decades, without legal immigration documents.
The Obama administration had sought to address this issue in 2012 with the DACA policy offering protection at renewable two-year periods, including authorisation to work, to people brought into the United States illegally as children and then growing up there.
DACA, and the subsequent DAPA programme – Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents – were executive actions by Obama to eliminate the constant threat of deportation for more than 4 million undocumented migrants.
Obama ordered the programmes due to Congress’s inability to pass the so-called Dream Act, which would have created a law offering essentially permanent residency to millions of immigrants long settled in the country, families with homes, businesses and professions.
Trump cancelled DAPA just after coming to office and then went after the more established DACA, but immediately faced a series of court battles over it.


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US Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump’s bid to end ‘Dreamer’ immigrant programme

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient Roberto Martinez (left) celebrates with other DACA recipients in front of the Supreme Court on Thursday. Photo: AP Photo

Lawsuit against Donald Trump’s ‘racist’ plan to stop DACA protections for US immigrants will go ahead

Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme protest in Washington earlier this month. Photo: AP 

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 05: Immigration activists put down paper flowers during a protest March 5, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Congress has not come up with a fix as today marks the deadline President Donald Trump has set to end The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Undocumented Asians in the US say they must speak up for ‘Dreamers’ and DACA programme

Undocumented Asians in the US like medical student Emily Park at UCLA are talking more about their immigration status. Photo: Los Angeles Times via TNS

Ernesto Parada, 28, a graduate student at California State University, Northridge, marches Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, through downtown Los Angeles to MacArthur Park, to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of the Obama-era immigration program being challenged by the Trump administration. (Sarah Reingewirtz/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP)

Students walk out of school in Los Angeles to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of the Obama-era immigration program being challenged by the Trump administration on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (Sarah Reingewirtz/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP)

Donald Trump declares himself the ‘least racist person’, and says DACA scheme for young migrants is ‘probably dead’

File photo taken on September 10, 2017 shows DACA recipient and appliance repair business owner Erick Marquez during a protest in support of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in Los Angeles, California. US President Donald Trump said on January 14, 2018 a deal to resolve the status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children is “probably dead,” blaming it on Democrats. Photo: Agence France-Presse

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speak during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to discuss their bipartisan Dream Act. A 12-year pathway to citizenship for young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and who are here illegally is part of a bipartisan immigration proposal by senators to prevent deportation of hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers. The Associated Press on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018 obtained details of the agreement between three Republican and three Democratic senators. The deal also calls for allocating $1.6 billion for structures including a wall for border security. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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The highest court in the US said that the cancellation of the DACA programme was ‘arbitrary and capricious’



The highest court in the US said that the cancellation of the DACA programme was ‘arbitrary and capricious’.


US Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump’s bid to end ‘Dreamer’ immigrant programme

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The highest court in the US said that the cancellation of the DACA programme was ‘arbitrary and capricious’