Judge Upholds Ruling That DACA Must Be Restored

In our August 15, 2017 post linked HERE, we provided a primer that explained what DACA is and why it exists after President Obama's 2010 DREAM legislation was filibustered by Republicans in Senate to prevent a vote.  

On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions shut down DACA.  He provided lies about these people to justify the move, offered no details of how the program could be wound down, and took no questions (because he has no answers).  

On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 a judge saved DACA temporarily.

On April 24, 2018, a judge took things a step further, ruling that DACA must be restored in its entirety.

Now on August 3, 2018, a judge upheld that ruling that DACA must be restored.

A federal judge on Friday [August 3, 2018] upheld his order that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be fully restored, setting a 20-day deadline for the administration to do so.

DC District Judge John Bates said the Trump administration still has failed to justify its proposal to end DACA, the Obama-era program that has protected from deportation nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children.

Previous court rulings in California and New York have already prevented the administration from ending DACA, but they only ordered the government to continue renewing existing applications. Bates' ruling would go further and order the program reopened in its entirety. The earlier decisions are pending before appeals courts.

Absurdly, the ruling sets up potentially conflicting DACA orders from federal judges by the end of the month.

The decision comes less than a week before a hearing in a related case in Texas. In that case, Texas and other states are suing to have DACA ended entirely, and the judge is expected to side with them based on his prior rulings.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/03/politics/daca-ruling/index.html