Magdy Mostafa

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump received an unexpected blow from the US Supreme Court that supported preserving the legal protection granted to 800,000 immigrants who entered the country as minors, thereby overturning a decision he issued three years ago to abolish the "Dhaka" program set by his predecessor Barack Obama regarding legalizing these conditions. Migrants and benefit from them.

Despite Trump's appointments as conservative judges in it, the Supreme Court - the highest judicial body in the United States - supported maintaining legal protection for young immigrants who entered the country irregularly in their childhood, and they are called dreamers, calling Trump's decision "arbitrary" and "arbitrary."

The court decision is a major setback for Trump, who in his campaign had already pledged to "end the program" immediately, stressing that "no deal will be concluded to legalize the young immigrants" known as "dreamers" in the "Dhaka" program.

What is "Dhaka"?
Known as the "Deferred Childhood Incoming Procedure" program, it is called "DACA", and was introduced in 2012 by former US President Barack Obama as a temporary measure to provide protection against deportation for people who have migrated to the United States who are children and do not have citizenship Or legal residency status, under the program, protection lasts for two years at a time, and is renewable, but the program does not provide a path to obtaining US citizenship.

Benefits
Participation in the program includes a set of benefits. In addition to permission to stay in the country, they may be eligible to obtain tuition fees within the state, and educational grants and loans funded by the state in some states to pursue higher education depending on where they live, and they may also be eligible to obtain Health insurance supported by the state.

In some states, they become eligible to obtain driver's licenses. This document is of great importance in the United States, where it is considered a basic identity document used in other parts of the US states as a basic identity card, and this step facilitates the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the country.

The "Dhaka" program - which started in the fourth and final year of Obama's first term - came after more than a decade of failed congressional negotiations on how to deal with "dreamers", and no legislation with a similar designation "The Law of Dreams" was introduced. In 2001, he would have given beneficiaries a path to obtaining US citizenship in addition to protection from deportation, but he received widespread support among voters.

Litigation
Since Trump's election, the "dreamers" have lived in a state of apprehension, fear and suspicion, especially since the Republican president made combating irregular migration one of the pillars of his policy, and the White House resident decided in 2017 to cancel the "Dhaka" program launched by Barack Obama to protect these young people, considering that it was " It is illegal, and Obama has exceeded his authority to create it.

Courts then did not delay the application of the decision, providing temporary protection to the relevant migrants, many of whom lack ties to their countries of origin, and their defenders were able to keep their case present through legal challenges, so lower courts decided that people who already had a protected status would be able to renew it even The Supreme Court issues a final ruling, and since that time no new applications have been accepted.

The dreamers' community The
people protected by the Dhaka program are now in their mid-twenties, the oldest of them in their late thirties, and the vast majority have been brought to the United States from Mexico, along with others born in Central or South America, Asia, or the Caribbean.

Trump did not stop attacking these "dreamers" immigrants, and said in one of his tweets that "many of the Dhaka beneficiaries - who are no longer young - are not angels, some of them are tough criminals."

On the other hand, supporters of these young people throughout the case stressed the importance of their contribution to the life of the United States, and last April they presented evidence to the court on the important role that "dreamers" play in fighting the Corona epidemic, and they also warned of the "catastrophic" effect of ending the Dhaka program. They said, "About 27,000 beneficiaries of the program work in the health sector, including nurses, dentists, pharmacists, paramedics, paramedics, and others, and about 200 of them are medical students."

Judicial decision
upon reading the Supreme Court decision - which was approved by 4 other progressive judges on Thursday - Court President Don Roberts said, "We do not say whether the issuance or cancellation of Dhaka is a policy based, the validity of these decisions is not our responsibility." He added, "We examined only if the government followed the procedural requirements and provided a reasoned explanation for its action." It "failed" to do so in this file.

The varied
decision angered the White House, but it was met with praise from the Democratic opposition, economic actors, human rights and civil society organizations, and Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted on Twitter: "Trump's decision to suspend the Dhaka program, one of the ugliest and harshest decisions made by a president in modern history, has been defeated." Sanders congratulated the "dreamers" and their supporters on the "great victory".

On the other hand, TechNet, which represents high-tech cutting operators, said, "Our nation depends on talented professionals like those who benefit from Dhaka. As for ACLU, it considered that the decision" confirms what we knew. Always ... America is their country. "

The future of
the court’s decision yesterday maintains the status quo, and the Trump administration must now either give up an attempt to terminate or provide a lower court with a stronger justification for ending the program, and this process is likely to take several months, putting the administration’s attack on the program in a state of Forgetting even after the presidential elections scheduled for next November.