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US states, immigrant groups to fight Trump’s Dreamer decision

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WASHINGTON: Several US states and immigrant advocacy groups vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s decision to end a programme that protects people brought illegally to the United States as children from deportation. But legal experts said the challenges will face an uphill battle.


Democratic state attorneys general in California, New York, Washington and Massachusetts said they will sue to defend the Obama-era policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and the immigrants known as Dreamers.


“We are going to court to defend DACA and to fight for these Dreamers,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy. The states have not said what their legal claims will be. The Trump administration on Tuesday announced it would phase out the programme but urged Congress to enact immigration reform if it wants to protect DACA recipients.


Whatever lawsuit the Democratic states file, winning will not be easy, said Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University College of Law.


“DACA did not create any legally enforceable rights, and certainly did not create any right to indefinite presence in the country,” he said.


One immigrant group, the National Immigration Law Centre, has already filed court papers seeking to block the Trump administration’s action by amending an existing lawsuit pending in New York. — Reuters


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