The U.S. Supreme court has not acted on three cases challenging a decision made by the Trump administration to end an Obama-era program that postponed deportation for children who entered the United States unlawfully. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acted to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2017 and three separate cases have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.

 

Each case asks the court to decide whether the DHS decision to end DACA is subject to judicial review and whether the decision was lawful. The court first considered whether to hear the cases during its January 11, 2019, conference but has not made a decision about whether to accept the cases since then. Four justices must agree to hear a case for it to move forward in the process.

 

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