President Obama Praises Supreme Court DACA Ruling, Encourages Voters to Elect Biden

Former President Barack Obama has praised the Supreme Court ‘s decision to uphold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) and said that he is happy for young people protected from deportation, according to ABC News.

In its decision, the Supreme Court said that the Trump administration failed to provide adequate support for its decision to do away with it. The DACA program, which was created during the Obama administration, allows undocumented children who were brought to the United States the opportunity to live and work without being deported. President Donald Trump has been trying to dismantle it, stating that Obama overstepped his authority, but the Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s action was an “arbitrary” and “capricious” violation of the law.

Obama made a statement via Twitter after the ruling was announced.

Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation. Today, I’m happy for them, their families, and all of us. We may look different and come from everywhere, but what makes us American are our shared ideals…

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

The former president followed up that Tweet by encouraging voters to elect former Vice President Joe Biden in November.

…and now to stand up for those ideals, we have to move forward and elect @JoeBiden and a Democratic Congress that does its job, protects DREAMers, and finally creates a system that’s truly worthy of this nation of immigrants once and for all.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

And as can be expected from President Trump, he took to Twitter to voice his disapproval of the ruling and to encourage voters to re-elect him to a second term.

These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020

Earlier today, the president stated that the Supreme Court “punted” on the ruling and that his administration plans on “submitting enhanced papers shortly.”

The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They “punted”, much like in a football game (where hopefully they would stand for our great American Flag). We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfil the Supreme Court’s…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020