The Trump administration will petition the Supreme Court to allow it to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which lets people who came to the United States illegally as children with their parents stay if they met certain criteria, The Washington Post reports.
President Donald Trump ended DACA in September with a six-month delay and said Congress needed to come up with a solution for the affected Dreamers. But a federal judge last week blocked the decision while state lawsuits against the government play out in court.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it would allow DACA participants to apply for renewals following the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco.
The Department of Justice is seeking to overturn the judge's decision, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions saying, "It defies both law and common sense" that a "single district court in San Francisco" changed the administration's plans.
"We are now taking the rare step of requesting direct review on the merits of this injunction by the Supreme Court so that this issue may be resolved quickly and fairly for all the parties involved," Sessions added.
Democrats have sought to use the upcoming spending deal as an opportunity to pass the Dream Act to protect undocumented immigrants, but Trump has tied protection for Dreamers to his own demands, telling several news outlets there would be no DACA plan, "without a wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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