US court gives verdict against Trump's bid to end DACA

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a benefit for immigrants that was implemented in 2012 during Barack Obama’s term.

But The Trump administration has sought to end the Obama-era policy since 2017.

On Thursday, the US Supreme Court gave a verdict against President Donald Trump's bid to end DACA that protects young immigrants from deportation.

It protects ‘Dreamers’, about 650,000 young people who entered the US without documents as children.

The Supreme Court took up the case after lower courts ruled that the Trump administration did not adequately explain why it was ending the programme, criticising the White House's "capricious" explanations.

On Thursday, the justices voted 5-4 to uphold the lower courts' findings that the administration's order violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which says a government action cannot make policy that is "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law" or "unsupported by substantial evidence".

Mr Trump denounced the decision in a series of tweets.

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