Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled Monday the Department of Justice will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration must continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protected immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children from deportation.

U.S District Court Judge John Bates said Friday that the Justice Department failed to make a case for why it rescinded DACA in the three months since the judge’s initial dismissal of the order. In April, Bates ordered the administration to restart renewals for people previously approved for the program.