Judge Orders Trump To Reactivate DACA

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

In a major setback for the administration of President Donald Trump, on Tuesday a District of Columbia judge ruled that the government must reactivate the mandate of Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, for its acronym in English.

John D. Bates ruled that the Trump administration has 90 days to justify why it has requested the cancellation of the program - which has welcomed some 800,000 people. If the government does not present a convincing argument within that time, "it will have to accept and process new DACA requests," it was said in a statement released Tuesday night.

The magistrate described the decision to repeal the DACA as “unexplained” and therefore concluded that the President's request was “illegal”.

"[It is an arbitrary and capricious suspension]," said the aforementioned document. "[The government] did not adequately explain its conclusion that the program was illegal,"

As we will remember, in September 2017 Trump ordered the end of DACA. Speaking his orders, Jeff Sessions, the nation's attorney general, said the program was an "amnesty" that contributed to the increased arrival of undocumented minors - particularly Central Americans - and detracted from job opportunities for other Americans.

Trump's decision sparked a huge mobilization of activists and non-governmental organizations who, through lawsuits and legal remedies, have since sought to protect so-called DREAMers from deportation.

These lawsuits have achieved three important victories: two of them in San Francisco and Brooklyn, where two judges issued orders that the program should remain in force. The third would be the one that the DREAMers have signed up for on Tuesday, which, unlike the previous two, requires the government to accept new applications from candidates for the program.