Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday vowed to press forward with the Trump administration’s efforts to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, despite a judge’s ruling last week that it must be restored.
Sessions issued a lengthy statement pushing back against Judge John Bates, who ruled last Friday that the Trump administration failed to provide justification for its decision to end the Obama-era program, which allows immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children to remain here without fear of deportation.
“Not only did the Trump Administration have the authority to withdraw this guidance letter, it had a duty to do so,” Sessions said in a statement.
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“We have recently witnessed a number of decisions in which courts have improperly used judicial power to steer, enjoin, modify, and direct executive policy,” he added.
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