From the Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center:
BREAKING: SCOTUS rules Trump’s ending of DACA is procedurally unconstitutional
On Thursday, June 18, SCOTUS’ long awaited ruling on the DACA program was handed down. Chief Justice Roberts was the deciding factor in a narrow ruling of 5-4 against the Trump Administration, dealing the final blow in a week of losses for President Trump.
Whether DACA itself is constitutional was not decided by the court, but rather whether Trump legally ended the program.
“We conclude that the acting secretary did violate [the Administrative Procedure Act]” and that the termination of DACA “must be vacated,” Chief Roberts’ opinion reads.
Although the program will live to see another day, the Trump administration may still be able to dismantle the program, if they can do it legally. Justice Alito’s dissent reads, “The Court still does not resolve the question of DACA’s rescission…Instead, it tells the Department of Homeland Security to go back and try again.”
Gloria E. Blanco, a staffer at Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Collective of Morris County, New Jersey, and a DACA recipient herself, made this statement:
“The Supreme Court’s decision rejecting the Trump administration’s move to end DACA is a joyous day for America, and another step closer to Dreamers becoming in name the Americans they already are in every other way. The tens of thousands of healthcare workers, teachers, entrepreneurs and model citizens in every sense but the official word who are DACA holders, can now stay in a country which is the only one they know and one they have made markedly better.
“But ‘now’ is not forever, until full citizenship is attained. Dreamers’ lives are on a two-year lease, with exorbitant renewal fees and no guarantee that Trump won’t try again with a different premise, and no certainty that ICE won’t target them for deportation now or another President won’t later.
“The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s attack on procedural grounds, but the ground will not be settled until Congress creates a path to citizenship for DACA, TPS, DED, and all undocumented immigrants. Today casts a new light on the priorities of strong inclusion rather than damaging division that our country should once again be basing itself on, and this means a safe and honored space for all who have chosen our country, through great sacrifice and loyal effort, to come out of the shadows.”
