March 5 was originally conceived to be a deadline of sorts for action. The Department of Homeland Security was going to renew two-year DACA permits that expired before March 5, and Monday was to be the day after which those permits began expiring for good. But multiple federal judges ruled that the justification the Trump administration was using to terminate the program was shaky at best -- and ordered DHS to resume renewing all existing DACA permits. And the Supreme Court declined the administration's unusual request to leapfrog the appellate courts and consider immediately whether to overrule those decisions. "It's good news for people in the DACA program, because they can continue renewing their permits.

Source: CNN March 05, 2018 11:03 UTC