DACA recipients file suit over Trump's move to end program
Source: Politico
By JOSH GERSTEIN 09/18/2017 11:42 AM EDT
A half dozen DACA recipients are suing President Donald Trump over his decision to end the program giving quasi-legal status and work permits to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
Several legal luminaries are backing the suit filed Monday morning in federal court in San Francisco, including Harvard Law professor Larry Tribe and University of California at Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky. One of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, Luis Cortes Romero from Kent, Wash., is less well known but intimately familiar with the issue: He is a so-called Dreamer.
The Trump administration is already facing at least three suits challenging the decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program set up by President Barack Obama in 2012.
A total of fifteen states filed suit earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, arguing that the move to end the program is unconstitutional and violates federal law. Last week, four other states filed a similar case in San Francisco. The University of California also filed its own suit over Trump's attempt to phase out the program.
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