DACA ruling by appeals court a setback for Trump administration

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A federal court of appeals ruled Friday that the Trump administration’s revocation of DACA in 2017 was illegal, overturning a lower court’s ruling.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia said the White House didn’t adequately explain its reasoning in the decision, which is a requirement of the Administrative Procedure Act, Bloomberg reported. The lower court had previously said there was nothing illegal about the revocation or how the administration went about it.

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DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is an Obama-era executive action that allows some young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children to stay in the country, work and go to school.

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Then-Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke “rescinded a general enforcement policy in existence for over five years and affecting hundreds of thousands of enrollees based on the view that the policy was unlawful,” the judges wrote in the 2-1 decision, the Hill reported.

Pro-DACA demonstrators in an undated photo. (Associated Press)

The one 4th Circuit judge who ruled in favor of the administration wrote in a dissenting opinion that said the administration has the right to “decide to prosecute, or not prosecute, an individual or a group” as long as it’s constitutional.

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The Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department have not commented on the ruling, Bloomberg reported.