The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s challenge to DACA, the Obama-era executive order that allowed the children of undocumented immigrants to remain in the country and work. KCRW also checks in with Barbara Ferrer, director of LA County’s Department of Public Health, about the current numbers surrounding COVID-19 as many local businesses have reopened.
Supreme Court upholds DACA
DACA recipients and their supporters celebrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the court ruled in a 5-4 vote that U.S. President Donald Trump's 2017 move to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was unlawful, in Washington, U.S. June 18, 2020. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters.
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