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On Immigration: DACA phase-out legally correct; politics is not our business

The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation. After Trump came into office, the administration announced the program had been created "without proper authority" and that DACA would be phased out.

Federal courts said the administration had acted arbitrarily when phasing out the program. The 5-4 ruling emphasized that the administration failed to provide an adequate reason to justify ending the DACA program.

Justice Alito seemed wrote in his dissent that "DACA presents a delicate political issue, but that is not our business. As Justice Thomas explains, DACA was unlawful from the start, and tha

Source: CNN on Trump Cabinet / 2020 SCOTUS rulings Jun 18, 2020

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