The participants in DACA are called “DREAMers”
In 2017, Trump targeted DACA and vowed to end the program that allowed about
700,000 people brought to the U.S. as children to apply for a temporary status that
prevented their deportation.
In the split decision, 5-4, the justices seemed to suggest that the Trump
Administration may have violated the law by attempting to end DACA so abruptly
without considering the overarching impact of the end of the program not only on people,
but on organizations and educational institutions.
Sotomayor added that Trump initially told the DREAMers that they were “safe” and then
started on his campaign to end DACA.
CNN also
interviewed DREAMer Cynthia De la Torre Castro from Fort Worth, Texas, who
said: “This decision is historic and can disrupt everyone’s lives”
Plaintiffs, including Antonio, other individual DREAMers, the University of California
and individual states argued that the Trump Administration’s proposal to end DACA was
in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law that lets agencies know
how to establish regulations and, in this case, dismantle programs.
Through a tweet, Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s decisions
on DACA and on granting employment protections for the LGBTQ community:
“These horrible and politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are
shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or
Conservatives.
