WITH the dawn of Donald Trump’s second year in the White House less than a fortnight away, debate over immigration, a central focus of his campaign, has reached a pivotal moment. On January 9th, with a partisan immigration battle raging on the other coast, a federal judge in California released a bold 49-page order. Judge William Alsup told the Trump administration to restart Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the programme Barack Obama crafted through executive action in 2012 for people who arrived illegally in America when they were children. The White House's reaction to Judge Alsup’s injunction was swift and familiar: Sarah Sanders, Mr Trump's press secretary, declared the ruling “outrageous”; on Twitter Mr Trump castigated America’s judiciary as “broken and unfair”.
The legal fight over Mr Trump’s handling of DACA dates to September 2017, when Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, announced the programme was...Continue reading
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