White House will ask Supreme Court to end DACA protections

The Justice Department on Tuesday said it would take the “rare step” of asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for the Trump administration to dismantle a federal program that provides work permits to undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since childhood. The Department of Justice said it filed a notice of appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seeking to overturn a California judge’s ruling that the federal government could not dismantle the Obama-era program while a legal challenge to the decision to end the program is pending. Photo: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., center, joined by Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., second from left, and Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., gives his support to “dreamers,” people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, and supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington.