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So much for "let Congress take care of it."
The Justice Department on Tuesday said it would take the "rare step" of asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for the Trump administration to dismantle a federal program that provides work permits to undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since childhood.
The Department of Justice said it filed a notice of appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seeking to overturn a California judge's ruling that the government could not dismantle the Obama-era program while a legal challenge to the decision to end the program is pending.
The Trump administration said later this week it will petition the Supreme Court to intervene in the case, hoping to bypass the 9th circuit altogether in its bid to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in March.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said "it defies both law and common sense" that a "single district court in San Francisco" had halted the administration's plans.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco issued a temporary injunction last week halting the Trump administration's dismantling of the program while a legal challenge to that decision is pending. He ordered the government to resume renewing DACA and work authorizations for the 690,000 immigrants who held that status when the Trump administration ended the program on Sept. 5.
Alsup's ruling said California and other plaintiffs had shown they were likely to succeed on their claims that the Trump administration's revocation of the nearly six-year-old program was "capricious" and not in compliance with federal laws. He said states, immigrants and public universities faced significant losses if a court found that the administration had acted improperly in terminating the program.
So much for "let Congress take care of it."
