Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to end ‘Dreamer’ immigrant program

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Washington (AFP) – The US Supreme Court dealt President Donald Trump’s efforts to choke off immigration a fresh blow Thursday when it rejected his cancellation of the DACA program protecting 700,000 “Dreamers,” undocumented migrants brought to the United States as children.The high court said Trump’s 2017 move to cancel his predecessor Barack Obama’s landmark Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was “arbitrary and capricious” under government administrative procedures.The judgement on a five-to-four vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court’s four liberal members, s…

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