Trump’s latest attempt to end the Dreamers’ time in the US is also shut down
San Francisco — Yet another federal court has prohibited the Trump administration from ending the Obama-era programme offering protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of children of undocumented immigrants, this time setting a road map for the government to begin accepting new applications. US district judge John Bates in Washington said the government’s 2017 plan to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — known as Dreamers — "was virtually unexplained" and so its determination that it was "unlawful" is now deemed "arbitrary and capricious". The government has 90 days to produce a better reason to end the programme. Without an explanation, the US "must accept and process new, as well as renewal, DACA applications", he wrote in Tuesday’s order. The US justice department said it would continue to seek an end to the programme. "Today’s order doesn’t change the department of justice’s position on the facts: DACA was implemented unilaterally after Congress d...
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