Trump Will Try Again to Repeal DACA

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration will try again to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted by the Obama administration, Politico reported. The renewed effort follows last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration had not provided adequate reasons for ending the program in 2017.

The DACA program was instituted by President Barack Obama in 2012 to formally protect from deportation those immigrants who had been brought to the US as children. The program also provides DACA immigrants with work permits. Obama made the decision to go ahead with the program in the face of pressure from activists and an impasse over a comprehensive immigration bill between Congress and his administration, CNN reported.

While immigrants who were already enrolled in DACA would continue to be protected, many thousands of others were unable to join the program as the Trump administration stopped it in 2017.

In its ruling last week the Supreme Court said that, although the decision to end DACA may have been constitutional, the manner in which it was carried was not. “We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “‘The wisdom’ of those decisions ‘is none of our concern.’ We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.” The government had the option of revising its legal path to ending the program, the Court said.

Announcing his decision to try again on Twitter Friday, President Trump said: “The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They ‘punted,’ much like in a football game (where hopefully they would stand for our great American Flag). We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly.”

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