The Economist Jul 24th 2019 by S.M.
In November, Donald Trump faces another pitched battle at America’s highest courtTHIS YEAR and last, the Supreme Court capped its term with a 5-4 ruling on one of Donald Trump’s policy priorities. In 2018, Mr Trump’s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries earned the justices’ blessing; last month they thwarted his quest to add a citizenship question to the decennial census. Another high-stakes decision on immigration comes in the autumn. In November the justices will review several lower-court decisions against Mr Trump’s termination of Barack Obama’s executive order protecting some 800,000 Dreamers—illegal immigrants who arrived in America as children—from deportation. When the decision in Department of Homeland Security v Regents of the University of California arrives during the heat of the presidential campaign next spring—no matter whether Mr Trump wins or loses the case—the question of immigrant rights will stoke an already fiery debate over the status of non-citizens within America’s borders.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, Mr Obama’s initiative from 2012, provided renewable two-year periods of relief for many undocumented but law-abiding immigrants whose only offence was having been brought to the country illegally before the age of 16. Successful DACA applicants had no long-term guarantees and no path to becoming citizens, but the programme lifted the immediate threat of being sent back to their childhood countries and included authorisation to work in America.
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