AGs sue to preserve DACA

A group of attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Sept. 6 to stop the Trump administration “from winding down the DACA program, which granted a reprieve from deportation to undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children,” the Washington Post reported.

“It’s outrageous. It is. It’s outrageous. I’m not going to put up with it,” WAshington State AG Bob Ferguson said at a news conference in Seattle, where he was joined by Gov. Jay Inslee and a half-dozen DACA recipients (Seattle Times,Sept. 6, 2017).

Along with Washington state and the District of Columbia, the states suing over DACA are: New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia.

President Trump on Sept. 5 “ordered an end to the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an ‘amnesty-first approach’ and urging Congress to pass a replacement before he begins phasing out its protections in six months,” the New York Times recently reported.

Pelosi urged Trump to offer Dreamers assurances

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke to President Trump “by phone on Thursday and asked him to issue a tweet reassuring young undocumented immigrants that they won’t be deported in the next six months,” the Hill newspaper reported.

“Pelosi told reporters at a Capitol news conference that she told Trump to make clear that recipients under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, often referred to as “Dreamers,” shouldn’t fear imminent deportation as the Trump administration phases the program out over the next six months,” the Hill reported.

Here is a link to Trump’s tweet.