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WASHINGTON DC: In a reprimand to the administration of President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Friday (December 4) ordered the full reinstatement of DACA, a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from the deportation.
DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, was created by President Barack Obama in 2012.
Issues work permits to immigrants who were brought into the United States illegally as children, also known as “Dreamers.”
Friday’s order from U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis reverses a July Trump administration memorandum, which restricted DACA to people who were already enrolled and limited benefits from the program to one year instead of two.
In June, the Supreme Court blocked Trump’s 2017 attempt to end the program, calling it “arbitrary and capricious” and ruling that it violated federal law.
The Trump administration has argued that Obama exceeded his constitutional powers when he created DACA by circumventing Congress.
Following the Supreme Court decision, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf issued the July memo that continued to block new DACA requests.
But Judge Garaufis ruled in November that Wolf had been illegally appointed to his post, meaning he did not have the authority to issue the July memo.
The judge’s order will now require the government to announce the full reinstatement of DACA on its website by Monday.
