Daily Mail
April 25, 2018
A federal judge ruled Tuesday against the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation, calling the Department of Homeland Security’s rationale against the program ‘arbitrary and capricious.’
US District Judge John D. Bates in Washington wrote that the decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, ‘was unlawful and must be set aside.’
Bates wrote that DHS’ decision ‘was predicated primarily on its legal judgment that the program was unlawful. That legal judgment was virtually unexplained, however, and so it cannot support the agency’s decision.’
Bates gave DHS 90 days to ‘better explain its view that DACA is unlawful.’
If the department cannot come up with a better explanation, he wrote, it ‘must accept and process new as well as renewal DACA applications.’
This article was posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 7:16 am
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