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Activists and DACA recipients march up Broadway in Manhattan on February 15, 2018.
In the first three months of 2018, the Trump administration approved more than 55,000 initial or renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — largely due to federal court injunctions keeping the program going — a document filed in court Monday shows.
In the ongoing litigation in California over DACA — which President Donald Trump declared on Twitter to be “dead” — the Justice Department submitted a quarterly report on Monday detailing significant information about the program.
More than 50,000 DACA applications remained pending as of March 31, according to the report.
Currently, federal courts in California and New York have ordered the federal government to continue processing DACA renewal applications, despite a wind-down down that Trump had set for March 5. The Supreme Court denied the Justice Department’s request to take up the case immediately, sending the case out of California back to the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit — and…
