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A judge on Friday ordered the Trump Administration to fully reinstate the program that protects hundreds of thousands of minors who entered the United States without documentation, DACA, from deportation.
The order of federal judge Nicholas Garaufis of New York obliges the Department of Homeland Security to reopen the program for new orders, a possibility that the Trump Administration eliminated after having seen its attempt to cancel the program created by President Barack Obama canceled. in 2012.
In his decision on the “Vidal Battle vs Wolf, ”the court further ruled that DACA should go back to what it was before the attempt to cancel it in September 2017. At that time, the program stopped receiving applications, according to one of the children’s advocates, Karen Tumliun, from the National Center for Immigration Law.
The judge also ordered that, no later than Monday, the Department of Homeland Security should post on all of its websites that it is accepting new applications, renewal applications and visa authorizations that allow you to leave the country and return legally.
This same information should make it clear that the approximately 66,000 one-year DACA renewal requests issued since the memorandum amending the program are automatically extended to two years.
In summary, the DACA program, which has protected thousands of young people from deportation since it was created in 2012 and allowed them to study, work and travel, must be reinstated, at the national level, in terms prior to September 2017, when announced the Trump Administration. its closing.
The judge had previously warned that the Trump Administration could not create its own laws and said its attacks on this program were “a sad and inappropriate use of alleged executive authority.”
President-elect Joe Biden has already said that one of his first decisions when he arrives at the White House on January 20, 2021, is to push for legislation that guarantees permanent immigration status for this group, known as Dreamers (dreamers).
