FILE PHOTO: Protestors demonstrate against the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, U.S. May 15, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to end a programme introduced by former President Barack Obama that protects thousands of young immigrants who live in the United States without legal status.
The day before congressional elections in which Trump's harsh anti-immigration rhetoric has taken centre stage, the administration urged the justices to throw out three lower court rulings that blocked Trump's plan to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme.
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