DACA recipients endure 'rollercoaster' ride with U.S. Supreme Court victory


  • World
  • Friday, 19 Jun 2020

DACA recipients and their supporters celebrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the court ruled in a 5-4 vote that U.S. President Donald Trump's 2017 move to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, created in 2012 by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, was unlawful, in Washington, U.S. June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oregon elementary school teacher Nancy Flores-Sanchez, 34, was getting ready for her summertime work as a children's camp counselor in Portland when she learned that the U.S. Supreme Court had preserved an immigration program that has protected her from deportation.

One of the so-called "Dreamers," Flores-Sanchez had just put on one shoe when she read on Twitter about Thursday's ruling, and froze.

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