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A Judge Supports Dreamers and the Rule of Law
A decision to uphold the program protecting childhood immigrants was on solid legal ground.
Pro-DACA demonstrators in L.A.
Photographer: David McNew/Getty ImagesThe White House was quick to condemn a federal judge’s decision last week striking down the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It called the ruling “outrageous,” and President Donald Trump tweeted that it shows “how broken and unfair our court system is.”
But the judge’s decision to invalidate the program’s termination, and thus to protect young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, was not outrageous. Strictly as a matter of law, it was eminently reasonable — whatever Congress does or does not do in the coming days and weeks.