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VietPress USA (April 24, 2018): Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a program
that was formed through executive action by former President Barack Obama in
2012. DACA allows certain people who came to the U.S. illegally as minors to be
protected from immediate deportation. Recipients, called Dreamers, were able to
request “consideration of deferred action” for a period of two years, which was
subject to renewal.
There are at least 800,000 Dreamers under DACA umbrella, but the
Trump administration announced last year its plan to phase out the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA).
A deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were
brought to the country illegally as children is “dead,” President Trump has
said. A deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants
who were brought to the country illegally as children is “dead,” President
Trump has said.
The Trump administration had initially set a March 5 deadline
for the program and called on Congress to pass legislation pertaining to the
young immigrants. But on Easter Sunday, Trump blasted Mexico and Democrats and
declared a deal for DACA was off the table.
The Trump administration announced in September 2017 that it
planned to phase out DACA for current recipients, and no new requests would be
granted. But a lower court order required the administration to continue
accepting renewal applications for those under the DACA program, and the
Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request to intervene.
Obama spoke out on social media after the Trump
administration announced a plan to dismantle the program, stating that it's
"self-defeating ... and it is cruel" to end DACA and questioned the
motive behind the decision.
Today on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, the third time the Federal judge has
delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump
administration efforts to end deportation protections for
undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers,” ordering the government to
continue the Obama-era program and — for the first time — to accept new
applicants.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington D.C. called the government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program “virtually unexplained” and therefore “unlawful.” However, he
stayed his ruling for 90 days to allow the Department of Homeland Security a
chance to provide more solid reasoning for ending the program.
Bates
is the third judge to rule against
Trump administration attempts to rescind DACA, which provides work
permits and deportation protections for about 800,000 undocumented immigrants
brought to this country as children.
In his decision Tuesday,
Bates said the decision to phase out the program starting in March “was
arbitrary and capricious because the Department failed adequately to explain
its conclusion that the program was unlawful.”
If the government does not come up
with a better explanation within 90 days, he said, the administration’s order
to rescind DACA will be vacated and “DHS must accept and process new as well as
renewal DACA applications.”
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