Showing posts with label Dreamers Deportation: 15 US states sue Trump. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 7, 2017

Dreamers Deportation: 15 US states sue Trump

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia went to court Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s plan to end a programme protecting young immigrants from deportation — an act former President Barack Obama called ‘cruel’.

Washington state’s attorney general, Bob Ferguson called it part of a “dark time for our country.”



The lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn asked a judge to conclude that the president’s action involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, is unconstitutional.

It called the move “a culmination of President Trump’s oft-stated commitments … to punish and disparage people with Mexican roots.”