A federal appeals court delivered a loss to the Trump administration Thursday by upholding a lower court’s order that blocked the government from rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

With the ruling from the three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trump administration must maintain DACA, under which immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children are protected from the threat of deportation.

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