(RollCall)
The Supreme Court will decide next term whether the Trump administration can end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, putting the justices in the middle of the heated debate over immigration policy during the 2020 campaign season.
The court announced Friday that it will hear arguments in a trio of legal challenges to save the Obama-era program—from California, New York and District of Columbia — in the term that starts in October. Any decision would likely be released before the end of June 2020, at the height of the presidential election.
Department of Homeland Security and other Trump officials asked the quick high court for a quick review of whether the administration’s September 2017 decision to revoke the program was lawful, and whether the federal courts can review that decision at all.
The 2012 policy allowed the government to use discretion not to deport so-called “Dreamers” who arrived in the United States illegally as children. The Trump administration determined the policy was unlawful and unconstitutional. Read more