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Supreme Court Rules to Keep DACA in Place

Supreme Court Rules to Keep DACA in Place

KQED's Forum vor 6 Jahren

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued a 5-4 ruling today
upholding the legality of Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program. The program allows immigrants who arrived in the
country as children -- but don’t have permanent legal status or a
path to legal status -- to receive protection from deportation and
permission to work. For the past eight years, around 800,000 people
have participated in DACA, working in what are now deemed essential
jobs: helping feed the nation, caring for coronavirus patients, and
serving in the military. The Obama-era program had been in
limbo since 2017, when President Donald Trump announced he was
ending the program and called it illegal. The program, which some
studies suggest was hugely popular with Americans, can now remain
in place. We discuss the decision and what could happen next for
immigration reform.