Resume DACA, says U.S. court

Resume DACA, says U.S. court

Context

Judge stays move to end the scheme, asks Trump govt. to accept new applications

What has happened?

In the biggest setback yet for the Donald Trump administration in its attempt to end a programme that shields some young adults from deportation, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the protections must stay in place and that the government must resume accepting new applications

Explain it better

• The judge stayed his decision for 90 days and gave the Department of Homeland Security the opportunity to better explain its reasoning for cancelling the program
• If the department fails to do so, it “must accept and process new as well as renewal DACA applications”

Not the first

• The ruling was the third in recent months against the Trump administration’s rollback of DACA
• Federal judges in Brooklyn and in San Francisco each issued injunctions ordering that the programme remain in place.
• Neither of those decisions, however, required the government to accept new applications.

DACA programme

• The Obama administration established the DACA programme based on the premise that people brought to the United States as children should be treated as low priorities for deportation
• About 7,00,000 unauthorised immigrants, the majority of them brought to the United States as children, had signed up
• The programme gives young immigrants, the ability to work legally in the country