DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A 23-year-old man has sued the Trump administration over his deportation to Mexico in February, saying he has permission to live and work in the United States under an Obama-era immigration program that protects young people who were brought into the country illegally as children.
If his claim is correct, it is believed he would be the first person with protected status under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, to be deported under President Trump.
Juan Manuel Montes, a Mexican national who has lived in the U.S. since he was 9, filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding that federal officials release information about why he was deported.
Montes, who has learning disabilities after suffering a traumatic brain injury when he was young, worked in California’s agricultural fields to help support his family and studied welding at a community college before he was deported to Mexico on Feb. 17 without explanation, his lawsuit alleges.
‘I was forced out because I was nervous and didn’t know what to do or say, but my home is there,’ Montes said in a statement.
Montes says he was approved for DACA in 2014, received a renewal in 2016, and that his DACA status and work permit were valid.”
-Cindy Carcamo, “‘Dreamer,’ 23, sues after he is deported by Trump administration,” The Los Angeles Times online, April 18, 2017 6:55pm