DREAMERS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A third federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to cancel an Obama-era program protecting young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The decision, issued Tuesday [4-24-18] evening by U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee in Washington, D.C., is in one respect the broadest so far against the administration’s move to end the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. That is because Judge Bates’ ruling requires the government to accept new applications, as well as applications for the renewal of benefits under DACA. The previous rulings required only that the administration resume accepting renewal requests. The judge, however, postponed the effect of his ruling for 90 days to give the administration ‘an opportunity to better explain’ its decision to cancel the program, which President Barack Obama initiated in 2012. Justice Department spokesman Devin O’Malley responded to Tuesday’s ruling by defending the decision to end the program, saying it was unlawfully created in the first place.”
–Brent Kendall, “Judge Rules Trump Administration Must Continue DACA Program,” The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2018 10:46 pm