Government Challenges Order Banning Automatic DACA Revocations

The Trump administration is appealing another adverse ruling related to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The Justice Department wants the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review of a February decision that ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop automatically terminating immigrants’ DACA protections when they receive a “notice to appear” in removal proceedings. More than 400 DACA recipients have since been identified as having lost their protections in this manner.

The DACA program provides deportation protection and work permits to young, undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. But several DACA recipients say they’ve ...