The US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s attempts to stop the legalization of hundreds of thousands of children brought into the country by illegal immigrants, launched by former President Barack Obama, are unlawful. The decision, which Donald Trump has already likened to a “shot from a shotgun in the face of [...] conservatives" Usually the conservative chairman of the court, John Roberts, appointed by President George W. Bush, in this case joined the liberal wing of four judges. In 2012, President Obama, not having Congressional support to pass legislation, issued a decree on “Deferred Actions for Arrivals in Children” (DACA). This decree protected several hundred thousand people from being deported to the United States without documents as a child along with their illegal immigrant parents from deportation, BBC recalls..

While Obama remained president, the immigration services did not bother these people, however, any president can cancel a presidential decree with a stroke of the pen, and in 2017, Donald Trump tried to do so. Trump's decision, however, was immediately challenged in court.. The lower courts suspended the execution of Trump's decision, and then declared it illegal. The administration appealed these decisions up to the Supreme Court, where it could hope for understanding, relying on most of the five conservative judges. However, this calculation did not materialize..