WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after the Trump administration tried to kill an Obama-era program shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation, dueling lawsuits will probably determine the future of hundreds of thousands of people who were brought to the country as children.

On Friday, US District Judge John D. Bates ruled that the Trump administration does not have to accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but must continue processing renewals while the future of the program is under appeal.

Judges in the District of Columbia, California, and New York have kept DACA alive for months, issuing injunctions and ordering the government to keep processing renewal applications.

But a competing lawsuit in Texas that questions DACA’s constitutionality now sits before US District Judge Andrew S. Hanen.

Washington Post