Supreme Court ruling upholding DACA is like ‘shotgun blasts into the face,’ Trump says
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled against the Trump administration and upheld the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, at least for now.
The DACA program allowed children who were brought to the United States illegally by their parents, called DREAMers, to avoid deportation. More than 700,000 people are part of the program, according to the Supreme Court ruling.
Responding to the ruling, President Donald Trump tweeted: “These horrible & 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. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!”
Two minutes later, Trump tweeted, “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”
Earlier this week the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against the administration, finding that employers could not discriminate against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Later in the day, Trump followed up with more tweets criticizing the court’s decision.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberals in the 5-4 DACA decision released Thursday.
DACA was created under the Obama administration in 2012. In Trump’s first election campaign he promised to overturn the program, calling it an illegal amnesty, according to The New York Times.
Lower courts ruled against the Trump administration before it appealed to the Supreme Court, NPR reports.
The courts ruled that the administration did not follow the Administrative Procedures Act, sending the issue back to the Department of Homeland Security to explain the reasoning.
In the opinion, the chief justice writes, “We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.”
“Here the agency failed to consider the conspicuous issues of whether to retain forbearance and what if anything to do about the hardship to DACA recipients. That dual failure raises doubts about whether the agency appreciated the scope of its discretion or exercised that discretion in a reasonable manner,” Roberts said.
Trump tried to trade funding for his wall along the border with Mexico in exchange for extending DACA, but that deal fell apart last year, Politico reports.
This story was originally published June 18, 2020 at 8:15 AM with the headline "Supreme Court ruling upholding DACA is like ‘shotgun blasts into the face,’ Trump says."
