The Trump administration has been fighting to end DACA, a program that allows “dreamers” live, work and drive in the U.S. Last month, President Donald Trump tweeted “no more DACA deal”. Although the administration has supporters for the move, a large number of people have challenged the act.
Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. is among the challengers. Earlier this week, the Judge issued a rule that deemed the termination attempt “capricious” and “unlawful”. He is the third judge to rule against the DACA termination filed back in September and has stated that the administration has no substantial justification for the move and has allotted them 90 days to resubmit its reason for the termination of the program. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in a hearing at the White House has said they would respond to the request.
Other challenges are Everett Community College who, also Western Washington University amongst over 70 other Higher Education Organizations with the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, signed an Amicus Brief (Friend of the Court Brief) which was filed early April as part of a case in the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in a bid to put a stop to the intended DACA termination by the Trump Administration.
But this has not deterred the supporters for the DACA termination. A lawsuit has been issued against the federal government by Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and West Virginia and was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Government is being sued over an argument that the Obama administration overstepped its authority when it created the DACA program and so files that the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas should “immediately rescind and cancel all DACA permits currently in existence because they are unlawful,” or at a minimum, block the government “from issuing or renewing DACA permits in the future, effectively phasing out the program within two years”. It is written in the lawsuit that “the executive [ex-President Barack Obama’s administration] unilaterally conferred lawful presence and work authorization on otherwise unlawfully present aliens, and then the executive used that lawful-presence ‘dispensation’ to unilaterally confer United States citizenship”.
