Trump to renew effort to end legal protections for DACA recipients

June 19, 2020, 11:33 AM

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President Trump said he would again try to end protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients after the Supreme Court blocked him from ending the program.

“We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfil [sic] the Supreme Court’s ruling & request of yesterday,” Trump tweeted Friday, blaming Democrats for not making a deal with him to protect the young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally.

Trump did not give specifics about what will be different in his renewed push to end the legal protections that shield the immigrants from deportation.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Obama-era program should stay in place. The decision did not say Trump lacks the power to disband the program for DACA recipients but rejected the way the administration tried to end it.

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's four liberal judges, who agreed the administration's attempt to dismantle the program violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the Department of Homeland Security to wind down the program over the course of six months on the basis that it "was effectuated by the previous administration through executive action, without proper statutory authority and with no established end-date” after Congress failed to pass legislation that would have protected DACA recipients.

Nearly 800,000 young immigrants are protected under the program.