Dreamers face test as Trump urges court to undo policy

Bloomberg

The future of kids brought into the US by their undocumented parents faces a crucial test in a federal appeals court in California.
The Trump administration seeks to knock down one of a trio of lower-court decisions that have barred the government from ending the program for so-called Dreamers that allowed the children to stay in the country.
On Sept. 5, Trump unveiled a plan to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by March, an edict that was first blocked in January by a San Francisco federal judge. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reviewing that ruling at a hearing in Pasadena, California. A three-judge panel will hear from the Justice Department and attorneys representing six Dreamers, four states, two cities and a university. An immediate decision from the judges is unlikely.
Undoing the Obama administration’s DACA programme has been an evolving policy priority for President Donald Trump over the past year. After initially expressing empathy for beneficiaries threatened with deportation, Trump’s position soured as
negotiations with Democrats over a political solution sputtered.
Trump administration attorneys are arguing that the Department of Homeland Security exercised its authority to issue policy directives under the purview of the Administrative Procedures Act.
Even if the lower court’s decision is upheld, the Trump administration believes the nationwide injunction is “overbroad,” according to court filings.