Here’s why millennials should be furious about DACA

By Eduardo Neret

Published April 25, 2018 9:16pm ET

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Here’s why millennials should be furious about DACA — Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) yell during a protest outside of the Federal Building in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. President Donald Trump on Tuesday began dismantling DACA, the government program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children. | (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John Bates issued an obscure ruling to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program because the President Trump administration’s claim the President Barack Obama-era policy was unlawful was “virtually unexplained.”

In other words, Bates did not feel the reasoning behind the administration’s decision to end DACA was adequate. It was acceptable for Obama to implement DACA via executive order, but now it’s apparently unacceptable for Trump to rescind it.

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