US court rules against Trump
A US appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump cannot end an Obama-era program that protects undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children.
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According to USA Today, a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a federal judge's decision in January that Mr. Trump lacked the authority to eliminate the program.
“Plaintiffs may succeed on their claim that the rescission of DACA—at least as judged on the record—was arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise inconsistent with the law,” the three-member panel concluded.
DACA is a deferred action program for immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children, introduced in 2012. The program protects a group of immigrants known as "Dreamers" from deportation from the United States and grants them work permits but does not lead to citizenship.
On November 5, the Trump administration asked a US court to review a federal judge's ruling earlier this year not to stop the DACA program.
Previously, in September 2017, Mr. Trump announced plans to end DACA, accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of creating this program without going through Congress.
