Judge says Trump sending conflicting signals on DACA Orders government to disclose more documents about how the decision was reached

Judge says Trump sending conflicting signals on DACA

Orders government to disclose more documents about how the decision was reached

The Trump administration can’t even agree on which agency was responsible for officially ending the Obama-era deportation amnesty for Dreamers, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, as he ordered the government to disclose more documents about how the decision was reached.

Anti-Trump state officials in New York and California, as well as immigrant-rights activists in both states, seek the documents as they fight to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

They won victories in courts in both New York and California on Tuesday, with Clinton-appointed judges issuing separate rulings ordering the Trump administration to turn over far more information about the decision-making than it has done so to date.

All emails, news clippings, memos, letters, notes and other documents seen by acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, anyone who advised her on last month’s DACA decision and even material related to former Secretary John F. Kelly’s decision not to revoke DACA earlier in the year, must be turned over, Judge William Alsup ruled from his courtroom in California.

He said that applies not only to the Homeland Security but also to Justice Department or White House officials who may have weighed in.

Across the country in New York, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis also ruled that Justice Department information must be released, rejecting administration efforts to limit the record only to Homeland Security.