DACA is in trouble before the Supreme Court. Congress should step in

Remember the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals? It might be illegal. Or, alternatively, President Trump’s decision to revoke it might be.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over this issue on Tuesday. When the Trump administration in 2017 announced that it was revoking the Obama-era DACA policy that gave those who were brought into the country illegally at a young age legal status, they cited the program’s arguable unconstitutionality as their justification. Critics and immigration activists challenged this revocation in court, arguing that the government was legally baseless in rescinding the program.