DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “A second federal judge Tuesday [2-13-18] has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that DACA participants and states are likely to succeed in their challenge that the way President Donald Trump terminated the Obama-era program was arbitrary and capricious.
Trump last year announced his plan to end DACA, the policy that allowed undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children to stay in the country, effective March 5. That deadline has become central in the congressional debate over immigration, but Democrats and Republicans are nowhere near a breakthrough.
Tuesday’s ruling, combined with a ruling from a California judge last month, means the program could end up going beyond the March 5 date… The judge said that the decision to end the program was based in part on the ‘plainly incorrect factual premise’ that the program was illegal…
This week the Supreme Court is set to meet behind closed doors to discuss whether to take up the Trump administration’s appeal of the related case.”
-Ariane de Vogue, “Second federal judge blocks move to end DACA,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Feb. 13, 2018 05:16pm