Thanks to a 5-4 ruling, the Dreamers will remain in their home.

In the second historic ruling to happen this week, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump Administration’s efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA. The court ruled against the rescission of the program 5-4, with the swing vote coming from Chief Justice John Roberts. This ruling is considered a major political defeat for President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to end the program and deport those it covers.

DACA allows the children of people who immigrated to the country illegally to remain in the country on the grounds that deporting them would forcefully remove them from the only home they have ever known. Of the approximately 800,000 young adults protected by this program, known as Dreamers, 90% have a steady job and at least 50% are currently in school. The vast majority of the Dreamers do not speak the languages of the countries their parents came from, which would put them in an extremely difficult life situation if they were deported from the USA.

Chief Justice Roberts mentioned after the ruling that the issue has not been ended completely, and that the Administration is welcome to raise it again after more thorough research. He did mention during the proceedings, however, that the Administrations efforts to end DACA are “arbitrary and capricious.”

Various businesses and political groups have praised the Court for its decision, with immigrant advocacy groups especially relieved. According to statistics several of these groups presented previously, there are at least 27,000 Dreamers currently working in medical professions; if these people were forcefully deported while the COVID-19 pandemic is still going, it could have dangerous repercussions on national health.