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Siding with Princeton University and the NAACP, Bates said the administration's decision in September to phase out the program over six months relied on "meager legal reasoning."

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Judge Bates said the government never gave an adequate justification for revoking DACA, so its decision seemed "arbitrary and capricious" — which makes it illegal under the Administrative Procedures Act.

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