TODAY, THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH, 2020.
>>> WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS THAT
WILL IMPACT DREAMERS.
PEOPLE BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY
AS CHILDREN BY IMMIGRANT PARENTS
HERE ILLEGALLY.
THEIR STATUS IN LIMBO.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TRIED
TO END A PROGRAM KNOWN AS DACA,
AND THE COURT RULED.
PETE WILLIAMS JOINS US FROM
WASHINGTON WITH THIS.
PETE, GOOD MORNING.
WHAT DOES THE DECISION SAY?
>> Reporter: ANOTHER BIG
SURPRISE.
THE SUPREME COURT SAID THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION WRONGLY TRIED TO
SHUT DACA DOWN.
DACA IS GOING TO SURVIVE.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION COULD
TRY AGAIN TO SHUT IT DOWN, SEEMS
UNLIKELY, SOMETHING THE
GOVERNMENT WOULD TRY TO DO
DURING ELECTION YEAR.
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED.
DACA, THIS IS THE PROGRAM THAT
SAYS YOUNG PEOPLE BROUGHT TO THE
U.S. BY ILLEGAL GRINLTIMMIGRANT
PARENTS CAN STAY IN THE U.S.
800,000 KNOWN AS DREAMERS HAVE
TAKEN ADVANTAGE.
IT WAS SET UP BY EXECUTIVE ORDER
BY PRESIDENT OBAMA.
AND NO ONE HAS DISPUTED IF
PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTED TO, HE
COULD BY EXECUTIVE ORDER SHUT IT
DOWN.
THAT’S NOT WHAT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION DID.
INSTEAD, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
THE TIME JEFF SESSIONS SAID DACA
WAS ILLEGALLY STARTED, SO
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
BASED ON THAT GUIDANCE ORDERED
DACA BE SHUT DOWN TWO YEARS AGO.
A NUMBER OF STATES AND
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS
BEEN SUED, SAYING THAT CAN’T BE
RIGHT, THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A
PROGRAM THAT MANY PEOPLE DEPEND
ON, ANOTHER LAW SAYS YOU CAN’T
SHUT IT DOWN WITHOUT GOING
THROUGH A CERTAIN SET OF
PROCEDURES, AND TODAY THE
SUPREME COURT BY 5-4 DECISION, I
AM DOUBLE CHECKING NOTES HERE,
YEAH, 5-4 DECISION SAID THEY
WENT ABOUT IT THE WRONG WAY.
SURPRISINGLY THIS DECISION WAS
WRITTEN BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE,
JOHN ROBERTS, SO WE HAVE ANOTHER
DECISION FROM A CONSERVATIVE
SUPREME COURT WITH AN OUTCOME
THAT WOULD PLEASE I THINK THE
DEMOCRATS AND THE LIBERALS.
SO THE ISSUE HERE WAS DID THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GO ABOUT
SHUTTING IT DOWN THE WRONG WAY
AND THE ANSWER IS YES.
OBVIOUSLY THEY COULD TRY AGAIN
THE COURT SAYS, BUT AGAIN, IT IS
UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN IN ELECTION
YEAR.
BOTTOM LINE, DACA CONTINUES.
YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE
PROGRAM HAVE TO REUP EVERY TWO
YEARS, THEY CAN CONTINUE DOING
SO.
WE’LL SEE WHAT THE NEXT STEP FOR
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS.
BACK TO YOU.
>> THIS GETS A LITTLE TECHNICAL,
PETE.
JUST SO WE UNDERSTAND IT, AND AS
YOU MENTIONED, 800,000 PEOPLES’
LIVES HANG IN THE BALANCE.
NOW THEY HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE
LOWER COURTS AND THEY’LL REVIEW
IT AND MAKE A DECISION OR IS THE
END RESULT THAT ULTIMATELY THESE
DREAMERS CAN STAY FOR THE TIME
BEING, IN OTHER WORDS, THAT THE
COURT SAID IT WAS WRONG FOR THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO END THE
PROGRAM.
>> Reporter: CORRECT.
THE WAY THEY WENT ABOUT IT WAS
WRONG, NOT THAT THEY COULDN’T
TRY TO END THE PROGRAM.
THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT HERE.
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN FAVOR OF
DACA SAID THE PRESIDENT WANTED
TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, END THE
PROGRAM, BUT NOT TAKE THE
POLITICAL HEAT FOR ENDING THE
PROGRAM.
SO WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DECLARED IT
ILLEGAL.
THE PRESIDENT SAID I HAVE NO
CHOICE.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS IT IS
ILLEGAL, WE HAVE TO SHUT IT
DOWN, THAT’S THE LAW.
WHAT THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IS
WHEN YOU’RE GOING TO DO
SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU HAVE TO
CONSIDER A NUMBER OF FACTORS,
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SETS
SOMETHING UP THAT SO MANY PEOPLE
DEPEND ON, YOU CAN’T JUST PULL
THE PLUG ON IT.
YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH A SERIES
OF STEPS, PUBLISH IN THE FEDERAL
REGISTER, THAT SORT OF THING.
THAT WAS NOT DONE HERE.
I MUST SAY I THINK THE DECISION
IS A BIT OF A SURPRISE.
THIS WAS THE ARGUMENT THAT
DACA’S DEFENDERS USED WHEN THEY
ARGUED THE CASE BEFORE THE
SUPREME COURT, AND IT DID NOT
SEEM TO BE SELLING WELL IN THE
SEVERAL MONTHS SINCE THIS, FIVE,
SIX MONTHS SINCE THIS CASE WAS