Judge blocks Trump Dreamer ban

President dubs US judicial system ‘broken and unfair’

President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the US judicial system as “broken and unfair” after a judge blocked his decision to end a program that protects so-called “Dreamers” from deportation.

Earlier the White House had called the ruling Tuesday by US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco “outrageous,” coming the same day Trump met lawmakers from both camps on the so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.

“It just shows everyone how broken and unfair our Court System is when the opposing side in a case (such as DACA) always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts,” Trump said in a tweet.

A US judge late Tuesday blocked Trump from ending an Obama-era program that protected from deportation migrants who entered America illegally as children.

The ruling came hours after Trump presided over a highprofile White House meeting with lawmakers from both parties on the fate of so-called Dreamers.

Judge William Alsup in San Francisco issued his 49-page ruling ordering the administration to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known popularly as DACA.

The government is “HEREBY ORDERED AND ENJOINED, pending final judgment herein or other order, to maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis on the same terms and conditions as were in effect before the rescission,” he wrote.

Alsup said the Department of Justice’s view that the program was illegal was based on a “flawed legal premise.”

Unless his order is overturned by a higher court, DACA recipients will now be eligible to submit renewal applications and the government will be required to “post reasonable public notice” that the program is once again active.

The so-called Dreamers were protected from deportation under the policy enacted in 2012 during Barack Obama’s presidency.

In September, Trump said he was scrapping the DACA program but delayed enforcement to give Congress six months – until March – to craft a lasting solution.

The government was sued on grounds that ending the program was arbitrary and done without following proper legal procedures.