The US Supreme Court has dealt President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies a major setback, ruling against his bid to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children from deportation.
The justices on a 5-4 vote upheld lower court rulings that found that Mr Trump’s 2017 move to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, created in 2012 by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, was unlawful.
Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberal judges in finding that the administration’s actions were “arbitrary and capricious” under a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act.
The ruling means that the roughly 649,000 immigrants currently enrolled in DACA — who are mostly young Hispanic adults born in Mexico and other Latin American countries, and are often referred to as “Dreamers” — will remain protected from deportation.
The ruling does not prevent Mr Trump from trying to end the program again, however it is unlikely his administration will be able to end DACA before the November 3 election in which the president is seeking a second four-year term in office.
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