On Thursday, June 18, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program. DACA protects hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation.
Author: Marielena Hincapié
Marielena Hincapié is the Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center, which helped implement DACA and brought the first lawsuit to challenge Trump’s termination of DACA.
Ending DACA Would Undo a Generation of American Success Stories
There is no question that DACA makes our country stronger—yet Donald Trump continues to push a cruel anti-immigrant agenda to strip young people of their rights and the opportunity to achieve their full potential.