Trump Bid to End DACA Puts Supreme Court Back in Political Fray
- President seeks to cancel young immigrants’ deportation shield
- Justices to decide case amid 2020 presidential campaign
Demonstrators hold signs during a rally supporting the DACA program, or the Dream Act, outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. in 2018.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is again poised to test the bounds of Donald Trump’s presidential powers, this time in a politically charged clash over the fate of 700,000 people who were brought into the country illegally as children.
The case, set for argument Tuesday, will mark the climax of Trump’s two-year campaign to unravel former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA, as it’s known, protects those immigrants from deportation and lets them seek jobs.