WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday seemed inclined to allow the Trump administration to end a federal program that provides work and study permits to some 700,000 immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children.
As hundreds of supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program rallied outside the court, justices were divided along ideological lines as they heard oral arguments in a case challenging President Trump’s move to cancel the Obama-era federal initiative and put the lives of those immigrants — known as Dreamers — in limbo.
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