A federal appeals court on Tuesday questioned the Trump administration’s rationale for canceling an Obama-era initiative that offered deportation protections and work permits to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. During a roughly 75-minute oral argument in Pasadena, Calif., a three-judge panel on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered whether the administration acted lawfully when it decided last September to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 16, 2018 00:30 UTC