From Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
We are thrilled to share that this morning, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump Administration’s attempt to end the DACA program, finding that the Administration did not follow proper legal procedures in ending the program. This decision means that the DACA program can continue for now and that hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth will remain protected from deportation.
While we are very happy with this decision, the Court’s decision indicated that the Administration still has the authority to end DACA.
As such, we urge the Administration to put politics aside and choose to continue the DACA program. The lives of DACA recipients, their livelihoods, and their contributions to our communities are at stake. We urge the Administration to make clear that it will abandon its attempts to terminate the program. At the same time, we know that DACA does not provide a pathway to citizenship and so we urge Congress to do what it should have done long ago and pass a clean version of the Dream Act.
We are still processing the impact of the decision and will continue to provide information on its impact to community members over the coming days.
In Solidarity
Jorge L. Barón
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