Supreme Court Will Hear Trump Bid to End Obama's DACA Program
- DACA protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation
- Lower courts rejected Trump’s claim that program is illegal
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear President Donald Trump’s bid to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants, taking up a politically explosive issue likely to be resolved in the heat of next year’s election campaign.
The administration is challenging rulings that blocked it from rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, begun under President Barack Obama. Lower courts have said the Trump administration’s explanation -- that the program is illegal -- isn’t adequate.