06/18/2020 - 11:21
- Clarín.com
- World
A week after having ruled in favor of gay and transgender people in the workplace, the conservative Supreme Court US again failed this Thursday against the Trump administration , rejecting the president's initiative to end the protection of almost 700,000 young immigrants who came to the US with their parents being very young, and that now, as adults, they were at risk of being deported.
This is an impressive rebuke to the President in the midst of his reelection campaign.
It seems certain that the result will raise the issue in the Trump campaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his first presidential campaign in 2016 and the immigration restrictions his administration has imposed since then.
The judges rejected the administration's arguments that the 8-year Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals is illegal and that the courts have no role to play in reviewing the decision to end that Program (DACA).
The Supreme Court has been analyzing the case for months.
As early as November last year, the country's highest court heard the oral arguments of the case in open defiance of the government in Washington.
Trump ended DACA, an Obama-era program that protected some 700,000 undocumented immigrants from deportation.
In November 2017, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration was terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program .
This group of young people are known as the "dreamers" ; boys who grew up and studied in the United States pursuing the American dream of their immigrant parents.
Closing the DACA meant canceling Barack Obama's characteristic immigration policy and ending the legal protection of hundreds of thousands of young people to be able to work, study and live without fear in the United States, running the risk of being deported to their countries of origin, to those who do not know, and where they have nothing or nobody. All his family and emotional ties, his entire life is in the USA.
The Supreme Court put an end to the debate, rejecting Trump's measure to annul DACA.
AP