We will go to london for reaction. In a major setback for the immigrant Rights Movement, a split u. S. Supreme court blocks president obamas plan to shield as many as five million undocumented immigrants from deportation. I think this heartbreaking for the millions of immigrants who have made her lives here, raise families here, who hoped for the opportunity to work to pay taxes, serve in our military and more fully contribute to this country we all love in an open way. Amy we will speak with thomas saenz to argue the case before the Supreme Court and with the young immigrants rights activists and her undocumented mother. Been to baltimore where a Second Police officer was acquitted on all charges for his role in the arrest of freddie gray, who died of spinal injuries last year after he was arrested and transported in a police van. Can you imagine how hard this has been for this family, or to really freddie rigidly freddies mother . Can you imagine losing a son under circumstances shrouded basically in secrecy . Can you imagine the frustration that nobody yet has been found double bowl or liable for something that somebody did . Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Britain has stunned the world by voting to leave the European Union, becoming the first major country to leave the bloc in eu history. British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron announced his resignation after leading the campaign to keep britain in the European Union. Hell step down in october. The guardian calls the decision a turning point in british history to rank alongside the two world wars of the 20th century. Financial markets plunged after the news, with the value of the british pound dropping to the lowest level against the dollar since 1985. We will go to london to cover this historic vote after headlines. Back in the United States, and a major setback for the immigrants Rights Movement, a split u. S. Supreme court has blocked president obamas plan to shield as many as five million undocumented immigrants from deportation. The deferred action for parents of americans program, or dapa, would have shielded millions of immigrants with u. S. Citizen or permanent resident children from deportation. Thursdays decision may also affect president obamas plan to expand daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. In washington, undocumented immigrant angel spoke out after the ruling. I just graduated from high school and i have the hopes that i would get the work permit to help out my family, but unfortunately, this happened. It is really heartbreaking i just had the hopes that one day i would get to contribute and help out my mom. All i want to do is help out my family. Amy democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton called the ruling heartbreaking, while donald trump praised the decision. We will have more on the Supreme Court ruling later in the broadcast. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court also ruled to uphold a raceconscious affirmative Action Program at the university of texas. The petitioner, abigail fisher, has accused the university of texas at austin of discrimination for rejecting her college application, she says, because she is white. But in a 4to3 ruling, the court upheld the constitutionality of taking race and ethnicity into account. Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said no decision since brown v. Board of education has been as important as fisher will prove to be in the long history of Racial Inclusion and educational diversity. In news from the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders pledged to continue fighting what he calls a Political Revolution to transform the Democratic Party and the nation while speaking in new york city thursday. The speech was entitled, where do we go from here . A likely reference to Martin Luther kings iconic speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Convention in 1967. Sanders pledged to fight to defeat donald trump in november, and to campaign for local progressive candidates. He also urged his supporters to never lose their sense of outrage over economic inequality. We cannot allow ourselves to become used to the fact that we got hundreds of thousands of children in this country who are homeless. Danger,our greatest becoming useless and thinking it is normal. It is not normal. It is an outrage. And never, ever lose your sense of outrage. Amy meanwhile, a number of Business Leaders have backed Hillary Clinton. Among those backers are Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg and warren buffett, as well as the ceos of general motors, delta airlines, airbnb, at t, and boeing. Meanwhile, Presumptive Republican nominee donald trump has arrived in scotland today, where he faces a barrage of protests and a boycott by a series of politicians, including scotlands first minister. Trump held a press conference this morning at the Trump Turnberry golf resort. As u. S. Networks switched to play his sales pitch live, a young man wearing a Trump Turnberry sweater stood up holding up red golf balls with nazi swastikas, saying these are the new balls available from the clubhouse part of the new Trump Turnberry range. These are available from the clubhouse, heart of the new Trump Turnberry range. Amy donald trump also praised the brexit vote, saying british people had taken back their country. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the European Union. Despite the fact that trump arrived in scotland only hours after one of the most Significant Developments in modern british history, the goal of his trip is not political, he said but rather to visit his two golf courses and support his childrens business. One of the courses, which is north of aberdeen, has lost millions of dollars and has attracted no major tournaments. Trump had once pledged it would create 6000 jobs, but it currently employs 150 people. Meanwhile, the former Trump Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been hired by cnn as a political commentator. He was fired tuesday. The was charged with battery in march after Surveillance Footage showed him grabbing reporter michelle fields. Fields said lewandowski left bruises on her arm. The charges were later dropped. A federal judge has ruled clevelands sweeping restrictions on protests during the Republican NationalConvention Next month are unconstitutional. The ruling comes after the American Civil Liberties union sued cleveland. The city had demarcated a downtown cleveland that will be subject to broad restrictions during the convention, including banning everyday items such as umbrellas with metal tips, glass bottles, canned goods, large backpacks, and sleeping bags. Meanwhile, the intercept is reporting the fbi, the department of Homeland Security and the secret service have , begun knocking on the doors of more than dozen cleveland activists ahead of the rnc. Jocelyn rosnick of the National Lawyers guild said the purpose of these door knocks is simple to intimidate the target and others in efforts to discourage people from engaging in lawful First Amendment activities. On capitol hill, democrats have ended a 25hour sitin to demand action on gun control. Without succeeding, and forcing the house to a vote. The sitin was initiated by Congress Member john lewis, a veteran of the civil Rights Movement, and comes in the wake of the orlando massacre at an lgbt nightclub, which left 49 people dead. On tuesday, the senate did vote on four separate gun control measures. All four measures failed. In baltimore, a Second Police officer has been acquitted on all charges for his role in the arrest of freddie gray, who died of spinal injuries last year after he was arrested and transported in a police van. Officer Caesar Goodson, jr. , who was driving the van, faced the most serious charges of all officers involved, including seconddegree depraved heart depraved murder and three additional charges of manslaughter. Well have more on baltimore later in the broadcast. Meanwhile, a new report says the city of chicago has spent more than 210 million on Police Misconduct lawsuits between 2012 to 2015. The analysis by the chicago reporter also found city officials had borrowed millions to pay for the more than 600 lawsuits over the three year period, taking out bonds that have added to the citys debt. And a singleseater plane has successfully completed the firstever solarpowered flight over the atlantic. The plane, the Solar Impulse 2, deported from Jfk International airport early monday and arrived in seville, spain thursday after a 71 hour, 8 minute journey. Pilot Bertrand Piccard spoke out after the successful flight. A world of modernday technology, the world of respect for the environment, the world of innovation and pioneers. This is the world [inaudible] we would like to represent, would like to promote. We really hope this flight symbolizes the flight from the old world to the new world. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Britain has stunned the world by voting to leave the European Union, putting an end to a 43year relationship. The socalled brexit vote passed by 52 . The guardian calls at a turning point in british history to rank alongside the two world wars of the 20thcentury. Britain will be the first major country to leave the European Union. The decision to leave rather than remain means britain will now launch a twoyearlong process to renegotiate trade deals and political links with what will now become a bloc of 27 nations. British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron led the campaign to keep britain in the eu, and responded to the vote by announcing he would step down by october. The british people have made a very clear decision to take a different path. And as such, i think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. I will do everything i can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months, but i do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination. This is not a decision i have taken lightly. But i do believe it is in the National Interest to have a period of stability and in the new leadership required. In my view, we should aim to have a new Prime Minister in place to the start of the conservative Party Conference in october. And i will do everything i can to help. I love this country and i feel honored to have served it. And i will do everything i can in the future to help this great country succeed. Juan polls ahead of the vote showed the race would be close, and the momentum had appeared to be on the remain side. The referendum turnout saw the the single highest u. K. Wide election turnout of the past two decades. The final figure was 72 . Former london mayor Boris Johnson, who is from the same party as Prime MinisterDavid Cameron, was the most prominent supporter of the leave campaign and could be a leading contender to replace him. Today johnson was booed as he left his london home. [boos] juan later in the morning, Boris Johnson praised cameron after his resignation announcement and promised that he would not rush to leave the European Union. , itn voting to leave the eu is vital distress there is no need for haste, and as the Prime Minister said, nothing will change over the short term except that work will have to begin on how to give effect to the people and to extricate this country from the Super National system. And as the Prime Minister has rightly said, there is no need to invoke article 50. And until meanwhile, britains Independence Party leader nigel , farage, called for a brexit government. I hope this victory brings out this failed project and leaves the are to sovereign nationstates trading together, bring friends together, and lets get rid of the flag, the anthem, brussels, and all that has gone wrong. [cheers] go down in history as our independence [cheers] amy Global Financial markets have plunged in response. Today, the European Union president called on the remaining Member States to enter discussions to help protect the eurozone in the pound. For more we go to london where we are joined by Joseph Choonara , a member of the socialist Workers Party and spokesperson for lexit, the left leave campaign. Also joining us is Alex Scrivener policy officer at , global justice now. He campaigned with another europe is possible, the Left Campaign for britain to remain in the European Union. We welcome you both to democracy now lets first go to joseph. Your response this is what you pushed for. Yes, this is a really historic decision and we have to remember the big picture here which is that the European Union has been underneath the u. S. , one of the key organizers of neoliberal capital is among a global scale, a key force in imperialism in the world, and the organization that has been punishing workers in greece, and spain, in ireland under the period of austerity. It has operated as sort of a reserve army for the capitalist classes of europe and extremists. In a sense, i hope that britain voting to leave which, britain is the secondbiggest economy in europe begins to precipitate the breakup of this club. That is the basis on which we clamp aimed campaign for exit. Juan Joseph Choonara, how do you respond to those who say the driving force of the Brexit Campaign was an antiimmigrant, xenophobia, and Nationalistic Movement and that your portion of the left in britain has basically united with that movement . Well, actually, we started the lexit campaign because we wanted to be an independent was that did not unite with those people. It is true there are people in borisxit camp nigel and johnson, who are happy to play the race card. That is entirely true. However, he would be a gross mistake for people on the left and progressives to believe that all of those who voted for exit were motivated by racism. Of course, there was a racist exit vote, but theyre also huge numbers of people, the vast majority of skills from unskilled, and semiskilled workers in this country voted to leave. , birmingham for example, multicultural cities, voted overwhelmingly not overwhelmingly, but narrowly, to leave in this referendum campaign. It is not true all of those people were motivated by racism. It is also the case on the remaining side, there are racist forces. You take a mood cameron you take David Cameron. He launched a few months ago and islamaphobic campaign against the man running for the mayor of london, abusing his authority in parliament to smear that figure my labour party figure, claiming he was a pathetic to isis when there is no evidence of that whatsoever. Y government put through agendas. We should not assume it is monopoly on racism. Tohave a very big struggle fight against racism in this country. That will be the case whatever the outcome of the referendum. But i think both myself and alex are very committed to now whatever the outcome is of taking for that struggle. Amy Alex Scrivener, you wanted britain to remain in the European Union. Respond. I think we need to be clear and then wake up a little bit to the reality of the new normalcy of what happened. I dont think this is anything else but a massive defeat for progressive forces. Not ju