Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline
A federal judge in Brooklyn on Thursday urged the Trump administration to extend its deadline for young undocumented immigrants to apply to stay in the United States under an Obama-era program that the White House recently promised to end.
Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that immigrants shielded from deportation by the program, which is known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, would have until Oct. 5 to reapply for protected status. But the federal judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, said the deadline was too soon and requested it be pushed back so that the president and Congress have time to fix the program through legislation.
“The concern of the court is that Oct. 5 is three weeks away,” Judge Garaufis said at an hourlong hearing in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. “It would make a lot of sense from various vantage points to extend this deadline.”...