Supreme Court preserving DACA underscores integrity of process, expert says | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Supreme Court preserving DACA underscores integrity of process, expert says Supreme Court preserving DACA underscores integrity of process, expert says Published: June 18, 2020 Author: Shannon Roddel ND Experts Lisa Koop Adjunct Professor of Law Supreme Court On June 18 the U.S. Supreme Court blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which offers legal protection for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. The ruling affirms the integrity of the process according to Notre Dame Law School Adjunct Professor Lisa Koop, associate director of legal services at the National Immigrant Justice Center. "In September 2017, this administration upended the lives of more than 700,000 community members by proclaiming an end to DACA in the most politicized and inhumane of terms,” Koop said. “When judicial eyebrows were raised by the substance of the bombast, this administration sought to spackle over their shoddy effort to terminate DACA with post hoc rationalizations. Today the Supreme Court affirmed that the integrity of the process matters and held this administration accountable.”  While the ruling leaves the door open for President Trump to rescind DACA in the future, the program remains in place for now.  “We celebrate for our communities and with our clients,” Koop said, “including DACA recipient nurses working on COVID floors at our hospitals, teachers instilling values of justice in our children and legal advocates leading us towards a better society. This fight is long from over and though we pause for a moment in joy and relief, we resume the fight to protect communities and pursue durable protections for our DACA recipient clients, friends, family members and coworkers."     Contact: Lisa Koop, 312-446-5365,  lkoop@heartlandalliance.org   Posted In: Faculty and Staff Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related October 04, 2022 NIH awards $4 million grant to psychologists researching suicide prevention September 09, 2022 Karrie Koesel to testify before Congressional-Executive Commission on China August 18, 2022 Two faculty win NEH grants to research history of red hair, philosophy of revelation August 16, 2022 NSF names Center for Computer-Assisted Synthesis a Phase II Center for Chemical Innovation August 15, 2022 Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., on Russian atrocities against clergy in Ukraine For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn