Senior District Judge Nicholas Garaufis on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to remove certain limits placed on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program during the Trump administration and to publicly announce that it is accepting first-time applications for protection under DACA, requests for renewal and advance parole requests.

The order comes after Garaufis found, in a Nov. 14 decision, that administration official Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving as acting secretary of homeland security when he issued a memorandum in July that largely froze the program, pending further review.

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