SCOTUS upholds DACA for now

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the administration’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants. The justices rejected administration arguments that the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal and that courts have no role to play in reviewing the decision to end DACA, in what appears a ruling on procedure, not policy. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court that the administration did not pursue the end of the program properly. ``We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies,“ Roberts wrote. “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.” The Department of Homeland Security can try again, he wrote. But for now, DACA recipients retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in the United States.