{"id":4807,"date":"2020-12-07T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2020-12-07T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T00:54:44","slug":"federal-judge-orders-new-applications-be-accepted-for-obama-era-daca-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge orders new applications be accepted for Obama-era DACA program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Sebastian Acosta<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A federal judge in Brooklyn restored on Friday the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, forcing the Trump Administration to accept new applications for the program which grants protections to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally since childhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cToday&#8217;s decision from a federal judge in New York is a victory for the courageous directly impacted plaintiffs, all DACA recipients and DACA-eligible youth,\u201d said Juluana Macedo do Nascimento, state and local policy manager for United We Dream.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis of the Eastern District in New York, had previously ruled in November that a memo issued by the Department of Homeland Security narrowing the program was invalid because Chad Wolf, the acting secretary, is not legally serving in that role.\u00a0 The memo had sought to close the program to new applicants and issue one-year permits, rather than two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judge Garaufis also ordered the DHS to post a public notice by Monday announcing that it is accepting new applicants for the program. Approximately 640,000 immigrants are currently enrolled in DACA and as many as 300,000 more could qualify.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, DACA continues to face legal challenges elsewhere. In Texas, Republican attorney generals have urged a federal judge to declare the program unlawful and clear the way for an \u201corderly wind down\u201d during the next two years. A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 22.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhatever its policy merits, DACA is clearly unlawful, as this Court has already held,\u201d prosecutors wrote in an October court filing. \u201cThis is a textbook example of prohibited executive lawmaking.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Sebastian Acosta A federal judge in Brooklyn restored on Friday the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, forcing the Trump Administration to accept new applications for the program which grants protections to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally since childhood.\u00a0 \u201cToday&#8217;s decision from a federal judge in New York is a victory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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