Texas’s DACA Challenge Sets Up Supreme Court Showdown
- States’ case seen giving Trump political cover to end DACA
- Victory in Brownsville would conflict with three other rulings
A rally supporting DACA outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 18, 2018.
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Texas’s legal bid to end the Obama-era policy that protects 700,000 undocumented young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as Dreamers, may set the stage for the Trump administration to take the issue back to the Supreme Court, which has so far refused to review the policy.
Three federal judges in other parts of the country have already issued orders blocking President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- who both publicly oppose the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program -- from killing DACA.