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    'Sigh Of Relief' Or 'Slippery Slope': Advocates and Opponents React To DACA Ruling

    "I couldn't believe it," says one DACA recipient. "The writing on the wall was that we were all going to be mourning and not celebrating today." Immigration opponents are blasting the decision.
    by Laurel Wamsley Jun 18, 2020 5 minutes
    Students and supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) rallied in downtown Los Angeles in November 2019 as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on the program. The court's ruling today will uphold DACA for now.

    The Supreme Court issued a decision Thursday that extends the life of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The ruling was a big surprise to many, including DACA recipients who worried they might soon face deportation.

    "I couldn't believe it," Emma Chalott Barron, a DACA recipient who will be starting law school at the University of North Texas in the fall, told NPR member station KERA in Dallas.

    Barron said that when the decision came down, she ran to check the Supreme Court website. "The writing on the wall was that we were all going to be mourning and not celebrating today."

    President Barack Obama announced the program in 2012. It allows people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to live and work

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