With 'Devastating' Consequences in the Balance for Hundreds of Thousands, Supreme Court Agrees to Weigh Trump's Move to End DACA

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it would take up challenges to President Donald Trump’s bid to terminate DACA, the Obama-era program that protects roughly 800,000 youth from deportation.

Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), said on Twitter that the decision—issued just before the high court takes its three-month recess—”is a reminder of what’s at stake with 2020 elections.”

“In total,” CBS News explained, “the court will hear three cases on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program known as DACA which will be consolidated into one ruling when the justices return in October.”

“The legal question before the Supreme Court,” Reuters reported, “is whether the administration properly followed a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act in Trump’s plan to rescind DACA.”

Three federal judges have already said the administration did not follow that law.

NILC, Make the Road NY, and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) at Yale Law School are representing DACA recipients groups in the challenge.

“President Trump has been overt about his unconscionable scheme to throw the future of DACA into uncertainty and use immigrant youth as a bargaining chip to advance an extremist, anti-immigrant agenda,” said Hincapié in a statement. “His administration has gone so far as to refuse even to consider legislative action to provide relief and has repeatedly blocked bipartisan efforts to enact a permanent solution.”