Washington — Late on Tuesday, a US judge blocked President Donald Trump from ending an Obama-era programme that protected migrants who entered America illegally as children from deportation. The ruling came hours after Trump presided over a high-profile White House meeting with lawmakers from both parties on the fate of so-called Dreamers. Judge William Alsup in San Francisco issued his 49-page ruling ordering the administration to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, known popularly as Daca. The government is "hereby ordered and enjoined, pending final judgment herein or other order, to maintain the Daca programme on a nationwide basis on the same terms and conditions as were in effect before the rescission," he wrote. Alsup said the US department of justice’s view that the programme was illegal was based on a "flawed legal premise". Unless his order is overturned by a higher court, Daca recipients will now be eligible to submit renewal applications and t...
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