A federal judge in Atlanta has barred the Trump administration, at least temporarily, from revoking the immigration status of an undocumented woman whose case helped to prompt the creation of President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen on Monday afternoon barred the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service from terminating Jessica Colotl's immigrant status under DACA. The judge also barred the agency from enforcing its decision to terminate Colotl's work authorization permit, which the terms of her DACA status permitted her to have.

Colotl was brought to the U.S. by her undocumented parents when she was 11. She grew up in metropolitan Atlanta and was a student at Kennesaw State University when a traffic citation by campus police in 2010 led to her detention at a regional deportation center before she was eventually released. Her case, at a time when Georgia and other states across the country were enacting highly restrictive immigration laws, also led to efforts to pass the federal DREAM Act to secure citizenship for the children of undocumented individuals who were raised in the United States.