US Supreme Court Blocks Trump Bid to End ‘Dreamers’ Immigrant Program

The Supreme Court of United Nations has dealt President Donald Trump a major setback on his hardline immigration policies, blocking his bid to end a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants which is often called “Dreamers”, who entered the US illegally as children.

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The ‘Dreamers’ term has been used to describe young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, who have lived and gone to school here, and who in many cases identify as American.

The term ‘Dreamers’originally took its name from the bill in Congress, but it has a double meaning about the undocumented youth who have big hopes and dreams for a better future.

The DREAM Act (short for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act) was a bill in Congress that would have granted legal status to certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and went to school.

The DACA programme has helped around 8,00,000 beneficiaries, a group that is commonly referred to as the ‘Dreamers’.

DACA is an American immigration policy established by the Obama administration through an executive action in 2012.

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