Federal judge in D.C. weighs ordering administration to restart 'dreamers' program

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Federal judge in D.C. weighs ordering administration to restart ‘dreamers’ program

By Spencer S. Hsu March 14 at 6:46 PM

A federal judge said Wednesday that he is considering ordering the Trump administration to restart the “dreamers” program and accept new applications for protection from deportation by undocumented immigrants brought here as children.

Such a ruling by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington would go further than federal district judges in California and New York have when they issued nationwide injunctions blocking the government’s plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, this month.

The injunctions, issued after lawsuits by several states and organizations, require the Department of Homeland Security to continue to accept DACA renewal requests from about 800,000 people in the program but not to process new applications.

Bates spoke near the end of a two-hour-long hearing Wednesday on two lawsuits seeking to overturn the administration’s ending of DACA in cases brought by the NAACP, Microsoft, Princeton University and a student.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/federal-judge-in-dc-weighs-ordering-administration-to-restart-dreamers-program/2018/03/14/883b5178-27a7-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. YEAH!!!!

I guess this is one of the original, sane, pre-Moron judges that hasn't been replaced yet.

[Gothmog]

2. This is great news