The Department of Homeland Security will no longer process new Dreamer applications, despite a direct order from a U.S. district court judge to do so
Photo: AFP via Getty Images Last month, the 650,000 undocumented Americans in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program rejoiced when the Supreme Court kicked down the Trump administration’s 2017 attempt to rescind the policy which creates a path to citizenship for eligible young people brought into the country without documentation as minors.
But on Tuesday, the Trump administration defied U.S. District Court Judge Paul Grimm’s order when Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced that DHS would not process new applications as the agency engages in a “comprehensive review” of the program. “I have concluded that the DACA policy, at a minimum, presents serious policy concerns that may warrant its full rescission,” Wolf wrote in a memo, despite an opposing conclusion from a federal judge.
According to an administration official that spoke to NPR, DHS justified a memo which directly defies a federal court order by claiming that it is an “intervening action” which makes the Maryland judge’s decision void. In the interim period between the Supreme Court ruling and Grimm’s order in Maryland, DHS was not processing new applications.
The Supreme Court’s decision on DACA — addressing not the merits of the program, but the failures of procedure in Trump’s attempt to revoke it — was expected to result in an attempt to try to halt the policy again. Now, immigration advocates worry that the president is stalling until after the election to find a way to properly do away with Dreamers.
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