An appeal from the U.S. Justice Department was submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday to swiftly overturn a lower court ruling blocking President Trump’s act to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In a court filing by Solicitor General, Noel Francisco was stated that “time is of the essence” for a decision to be brought before its current term ends in June.
Several Democratic state attorneys general and other officials and organizations challenged Trump’s action in multiple federal courts as President Trump in September revoked the DACA program.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was established in 2012 by former President Barack Obama. Trump’s decision to end DACA comes into effect on March, till then the president asked Republican-controlled Congress to come up with a bipartisan legislative solution, which is yet to be finished.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup based in San Francisco on January 9 ruled that DACA have to remain active while the legal action concerning the program is resolved.
Reuters reports that the Justice Department did not file an emergency application that, if successful, would result in the judge’s ruling being put on hold within days. That means the program will remain in effect until the Supreme Court resolves the case.
If the Supreme Court declines speeding up the process it could take more than a year for a decision to be brought.
Since its establishment, DACA protected roughly 800,000 young adults from being deported and allowed them to work legally in the U.S.
Recent statistics say that at this moment 690,000 participants of the program which are known as “Dreamers” are active in the U.S.
Judge Alsup’s ruling happened while Trump’s negotiations with the congressional leaders took a wrong turn when the president rejected the bipartisan solution and gave his offending remarks toward immigrants coming from Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries.
According to Reuters, the Justice Department’s move to go directly to the Supreme Court is unusual because the administration is essentially seeking to circumvent the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which previously ruled against it over Trump’s temporary travel bans on people entering the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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