DACA Supporters Hold Car Rally, Await SCOTUS Ruling

By Matthew Casey
Published: Thursday, May 7, 2020 - 7:33am

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A Jeep drives north on Central Avenue during a car rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on May 6, 2020. Many pro-DACA participants had butterfly wings.

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule any day on the future of an Obama-era program that shields certain undocumented people from deportation and lets them work.

Arizona groups backing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals organized a car rally on Central Avenue near the Phoenix office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to send their message to the court.

DACA recipients and their supporters marched to roughly the same area almost three years ago, after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a phase out of the program.

Federal lawsuits followed and lower courts blocked the Trump administration from ending DACA.

The Supreme Court heard the case in November, and is expected to decide the fate of the program by the end of the current session.

Federal data show there were about 24,000 Arizonans with DACA status at the end of 2019. 

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