DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Opening another front in the battle over immigration policy, Texas and six other states sued the federal government on Tuesday [5-1-18] in an attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The lawsuit — joined by Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia — asserts that the Obama administration overstepped its authority when it created the DACA program, which allows individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children to remain in the country, without congressional approval…It calls on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to ‘immediately rescind and cancel all DACA permits currently in existence because they are unlawful,’ or at a minimum to block the government ‘from issuing or renewing DACA permits in the future, effectively phasing out the program within two years.’ The lawsuit represents a strange conflict between two parties that do not actually disagree. President Trump, too, wants to get rid of DACA: He ordered an end to the program in September and called on Congress to pass a replacement law, though it has not done so.”
-Maggie Astor, “Seven States, Led by Texas, Sue to End DACA Program,” The New York Times online, May 1, 2018