Supreme court justices have refused to take up the appeal of a lower court order requiring continued acceptance of renewal applications for Dreamers.
The supreme court has rejected the Trump administration’s unusual request to bypass a federal appeals court in a case stemming from the president’s cancellation of a programme that protects young immigrants known as “Dreamers”. The court’s decision on Monday refusing to intervene in a California lawsuit brought by that state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra means the government must continue to accept renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme (“DACA”).
In September 2017, the Trump administration cancelled DACA, which offers temporary protection against deportation and grants people who migrated to the US as children but do not have legal status eligibility for work permits.
The DACA programme was scheduled to end on March 5, but because of the decision the government is obliged to continue accepting renewal applications, perhaps indefinitely. People who have not previously received DACA benefits, however, cannot apply for the programme under the courts’ orders.
