California Picks Up Fight Over DACA Restrictions Again – By Vanessa Romo (NPR) / Aug 18 2020
After several legal victories, California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra says he will take the Trump Administration back to court over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
In a court filing Tuesday, Becerra said his office expects to challenge the latest set of rules that the state argues have scaled back DACA against the orders of the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal lower court in Maryland.
Those decisions “required DHS to resume accepting initial DACA applications from eligible immigrants, including those who had aged in to eligibility during the unlawful tenure of the [new policy],” the attorney general’s office said.
A June ruling by the Supreme Court found that efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to get rid of DACA were “arbitrary and capricious.”
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