
Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications
Apr 25, 2018 By Daisy OcampoImage courtesy of the Washington Post.
By Maria Sacchetti April 24 at 11:59 PM
“A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and — for the first time since announcing it would end — reopen it to new applicants.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday called the government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program ‘virtually unexplained’ and therefore ‘unlawful.’