A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to keep deportation protection for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers."
In a sharp rebuke to President Trump's efforts to end the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, District Judge John Bates also ordered the Department of Homeland Security to accept new applicants to the program for the first time since it became law in 2012.
The judge said Trump administration efforts to scrap DACA were illegal.
He called it "arbitrary and capricious because the department failed to adequately explain its conclusion that the program is unlawful."
There has been no response so far from the administration.