Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending Obama-era DACA program

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protected children brought to the United States illegally from deportation.

The court’s decision, 5-4, allows the Obama-era program to stay in place following the Trump administration’s attempt to disassemble it in September 2017.

At the request of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Homeland Security in 2017 announced it would begin winding down the program over the course of six months on the basis that DACA "was effectuated by the...