Obama Praises SCOTUS Ruling on DACA, Says ‘We Have to Move Forward and Elect’ Biden
Former President Barack Obama (D) is praising the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA progam was created in 2012 by Obama to protect immigrants who were…
Former President Barack Obama (D) is praising the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The DACA progam was created in 2012 by Obama to protect immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children from deportation. Those immigrants have been called “Dreamers.”
In a tweet on Thursday, Obama said, “Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation.”
He continued:
“Today, I’m happy for them, their families, and all of us. We may look different and come from everywhere, but what makes us American are our shared ideals and now to stand up for those ideals, we have to move forward and elect and a Democratic Congress that does its job, protects DREAMers, and finally creates a system that’s truly worthy of this nation of immigrants once and for all.”
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday morning that President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind DACA in 2017 was illegal.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who joined the court’s four liberal justices to uphold the protections, called Trump’s move “arbitrary and capricious.”
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