Dreamers Win Appeal in Fight Over Young Immigrants Program (2)

Nov. 8, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

Children of undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers prevailed in the first federal appeals court showdown over the Trump administration’s move to do away with the Obama-era program.

The ruling Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upholds one of four lower-court rulings barring the government from ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which allows about 700,000 people to legally live, study and work in the U.S. and protects them from deportation. President Donald Trump and Congress remain in a stalemate over whether to preserve, modify or phase out the program.

The Trump administration unveiled its ...

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