Trump to extend current DACA protections, reject new applications after Supreme Court knockdown

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's administration will continue to reject new applications for an immigration program that allows young, undocumented immigrants to live and work in the country but will let current "Dreamers" renew those protections.

The decision, announced in a Department of Homeland Security memo, comes a month after a divided Supreme Court blocked the White House from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, finding the administration was "arbitrary and capricious" in how it sought to wind down the Obama-era program.

Trump has long sought to roll back the DACA program, which allows some 650,000 immigrants brought to the country as children to live and work in the United States without fear of deportation. President Barack Obama created DACA in 2012 through executive action and without congressional input.