The US Supreme Court blocks Trump's attempt to end DACA

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(CNN) - The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States from deportation when they were children. The court ruling will allow DACA beneficiaries to continue to renew membership in the program that offers them work authorization and temporary protection against deportation.

Since November 2019, the Supreme Court of Justice had been considering the future of the Obama-era initiative.

The Trump administration attempted to eliminate DACA, but lower courts have blocked that effort. The plaintiffs, including the University of California, a handful of states and DACA recipients, argued that the removal violates the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law that regulates how agencies can establish regulations.

The Trump government appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which made its decision Thursday.

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