U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Rescinding DACA, With Justice Roberts the Deciding Vote
In another vote that Justice Thomas calls political, the U.S. Supreme Court rules against Trump’s actions to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or, DACA, an Obama era action designed to protect 650,000 children of immigrants living in the United States from being deported.
Justice Roberts attacked the procedure rather than the substance of the DACA act. “The dispute before the Court is not whether DHS may rescind DACA. All parties agree that it may. The dispute is instead primarily about the procedure the agency followed in doing so.”
“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 :
DACA was challenged in 2015 and in subsequent cases.
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER in the District Court of Texas Brownsville Division.
This is a case in which twenty-six states or their representatives are seeking injunctive relief against the United States and several officials of the Department of Homeland Security to prevent them from implementing a program entitled “Deferred Action for Parents of Americans
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This program is designed to provide legal presence to over four million individuals who are currently in the country illegally, and would enable these
individuals to obtain a variety of both state and federal benefits.
The genesis of the problems presented by illegal immigration in this matter was described
by the United States Supreme Court decades ago:
Sheer incapability or lax enforcement of the laws barring entry into this country, coupled with the failure to establish an effective bar to the employment of undocumented aliens, has resulted in the creation of a substantial “shadow population” of illegal migrants―numbering in the millions―within our borders.
The Court withheld a final ruling.