The Trump administration has recently attempted to rescind a program that protects undocumented young adults from deportation. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, better known as DACA, is an immigration policy that allows children who were brought to the United States illegally to obtain a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S. The policy was implemented during the Obama administration, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, began accepting applications for the program on August 15, 2012.

In September of 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the deferred-action program, potentially affecting over half a million DACA beneficiaries. A few months later, Trump and a bipartisan group of lawmakers met at the White House for an hour of negotiations to discuss a legislative fix for DACA. That evening, a federal judge ordered that the U.S. government keep DACA on the original terms and conditions that were in effect at the time it was established.

More recently, on April 24, 2017, Judge John D. Bates of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the government must reopen and resume accepting new DACA applications. Judge Bates asserted that the administration’s pursuit to discontinue the program lacked factual evidence to support their claim that the program was “unlawful.”

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