The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to bypass a federals appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
The decision affecting “Dreamers” means the case will almost certainly have to work its way through the lower courts before any Supreme Court ruling is possible.
And because that could take weeks or months, Monday’s decision also is likely to further reduce pressure
on Congress to act quickly on the matter.
The ruling on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, wasn’t unexpected. Justice Department spokesman Devin O’Malley acknowledged that the court “very rarely” hears a case before a lower appeals court has considered it, though he said administration’s view was “it was warranted” in this case.
O’Malley said administration will continue to defend the Homeland Security Depart-ment’s “lawful authority to wind down DACA in an orderly manner.”
DACA has provided protection from deportation and work permits for about 7,00,000 young people who came to the US as children and stayed illegally.
last fall, Trump argued that Obama had exceeded his executive powers when he created programme.
Trump gave lawmakers until March 5 to send him legislation to renew the program. But in recent weeks, federal judges in San Francisco and New York have made Trump’s deadline temporarily moot.