White House fights that DACA protections must continue

The White House is fighting back against a federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration must again accept new applications for protection from undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and keep the program in place.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders Wednesday maintained the administration’s position that the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for the approximately so-called 700 thousand Dreamers violates federal law.

“We believe the judge’s ruling is extraordinarily broad and wrong on the law,” Sanders said. “What’s worse is that it creates an incentive for more illegal immigrant youth to come here and causes them to expect similar judicial policies be applied to them.”

Sanders put the onus on Congress to come up with a permanent fix to the DACA program.

“It’s time for Congress to do what the president has called on them to do and offered to be part of and actually fix this problem,” she said.