The Trump administration must restart a program aimed at protecting abused or mistreated undocumented immigrant youths after a federal judge found that President Donald Trump's government failed to follow the law when it revoked the practice of automatically considering those youths for deferred immigration action.

The 49-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee, a Trump appointee, concerns a deferred action program for "young persons" with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) referred to as SIJS-DA. The SIJS classification was created in 1990 to provide "immigration relief for foreign-born children living in the United States who have been abused, neglected, abandoned, or similarly mistreated by a parent" and for whom a court found it was not in their best interest to return

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