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US Supreme Court Hands Trump Admin A Temporary Defeat Regarding DACA

NPR

In The Moment … June 23, 2020 Show 844 Hour 2

The United States Supreme Court handed the Trump Administration a temporary defeat regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA, which currently has more than 643,000 recipients who pay $60 billion in taxes every year, cannot be dismantled in the way the Trump Administration had intended, the Court decided. 
 
Mike Thompson, J.D., is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Sioux Falls. He joins us with insight into the case and what's next for policymakers and hundreds of thousands of DREAMers. 

 
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