California Sues Trump Administration Over DACA Elimination
Source: huffingtonpost
"SAN FRANCISCO ― California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) announced Monday he is suing President Donald Trumps administration to block it from ending protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants.
Attorneys general in Maine, Maryland and Minnesota are joining the suit.
Becerras announcement came one week after the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and left the issue for Congress to resolve legislatively in the next six months, when work permits and deportation protections will begin to lapse for many of its recipients. Implemented by President Barack Obama in 2012, DACA protects from deportation roughly 800,000 Dreamers who came to the U.S. as children and allows them to work legally. More than 200,000 Dreamers live in California.
In the lawsuit, Becerra argues that rescinding DACA violates the Fifth Amendments due process clause due to concern that the administration will use the personal information Dreamers provided to apply for the program to find and deport them or their family members."
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(81,487 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)The state had taken other measures against the admin. (like the State University System) but had not done this yet. I am glad they finally got their shit together.