11/08/2018

Appeals Court Upholds DACA Continuation

The program protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s temporary order preventing the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Last year, President (Donald) Trump ordered an end to DACA, the Obama-era program that protects more than 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation. Earlier today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump lacks the authority to end the program.

“Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claim that the rescission of DACA – at least as justified on this record – is arbitrary, capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law,” the three-member panel from the circuit court said.

The U.S. Justice Department is likely to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Earlier in the week, the administration asked the high court to intervene and put the case on its docket in the current term, which ends in June 2019.

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