On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to President Trump’s immigration agenda — and maybe to his reelection prospects. The court ruled, by a 5-to-4 margin, that the Trump administration failed to follow procedure and therefore can’t enact its plan to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era program designed to stop deportations of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.
On a simple policy level, this is a defeat for Trump: His key issue in the 2016 Republican primary, and arguably the general election as well, was immigration restriction. But it’s also a political trap. If Trump chooses to battle with Democrats over DACA this close to the election, he could please parts of his base while ultimately alienating key voters who haven’t yet turned on him completely. CONT.
David Byler, Washington Post
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