DACA Reinstated: Federal Judge Forces Trump to Follow Obama's Playbook on Dreamers
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration needs to basically resume using President Obama's playbook for so-called "dreamers." Obama's program, known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, allowed certain people, known frequently as "dreamers," to remain in the country without the threat of deportation if they arrived in the United States as children, met educational or military service requirements, and had good moral character (or lacked serious criminal convictions). DACA has been a lightning rod of criticism for Republicans and Conservatives who think it was too soft on so-called illegal aliens or, at a minimum, was a sweeping program that should not have been carried out by executive action.
READ the judge's order and injunction below.
The judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, sitting in the Eastern District of New York, ordered Tuesday