President Donald Trump’s effort to end a scheme shielding young immigrants from deportation faced an uncertain future Monday, after the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Trump’s move to end protections for hundreds of thousands of people brought illegally to the United States as children has been blocked by the lower courts.
The White House had urged the Supreme Court to end the deadlock, but on Monday it declined, at least for now.
The decision muddies an already complex political debate over reforms to the US immigration system.
Trump has tried to use the prospect of reinstating the program for political leverage — a quid-pro-quo in exchange for Democrats agreeing to build his much-vaunted border wall.
Barring Supreme Court intervention the Obama-era “DACA” — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — program will stay in place, even if recipients are still…
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