Appeals court upholds block on Trump’s attempt to end DACA

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s temporary order preventing President Donald Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump’s decision to phase out the Obama-era DACA program, which allows roughly 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to obtain work permits and protects them from deportation, was likely “arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”

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