Supreme Court to take up Dreamers case

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted an appeal to the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“The Obama-era program to protect DREAMers will get a one-hour hearing before the high court next term. The court said it would consolidate three appeals into one argument,” NPR reported on June 28.

The Supreme Court on Friday “agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump acted lawfully when he moved to end a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, a key element of his hardline immigration policies,” Reuters reported.

Under the headline, “Trump vs. ‘Dreamers’: Supreme Court to decide on DACA during the election year,” Los Angeles Times reporter David Savage wrote that the high court will “hear arguments in the fall over whether the administration has the authority to “wind down” the program, which suspended deportation for these young immigrants who were brought into the country as children.”

The New York Times reported that the court “will probably issue its decision in the spring or summer of 2020, ensuring a fierce immigration debate over the outcome in the midst of the presidential campaign.”