Federal court restores DACA and orders DHS to accept new applicants immediately - dealing a huge blow to Trump's three-year bid to end Obama's 'Dreamer' program
Daily Mail
December 4, 2020
Donald Trump's three year battle to overturn the rules regarding undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children was dealt a blow on Friday night, after a judge in Brooklyn fully restored the Obama-era program.
DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, has been a bone of contention for Trump throughout his presidency, and in September 2017 he officially began the process of ending it.
Under the scheme 700,000 young people brought to the U.S. by their parents when they were under 16, and who were under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012, were exempt from deportation. They must have been brought to the U.S. before June 2007, and be able to prove they have continuously lived in the country since then.
On Friday evening U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis
fully restored the Obama-era program. The judge ordered the Department
of Homeland Security to begin accepting first-time applications on
Monday.
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