New Jersey AG intervenes in Federal DACA lawsuit |
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal`s office June 25 has been given permission to intervene in a federal lawsuit revolving around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy. A judge in Texas cleared the path for New Jersey and the Indian American attorney general to get involved with the federal lawsuit brought on by seven southern states challenging the policy. DACA was introduced and implemented by President Barack Obama and now faces an uncertain future under the administration of sitting President Donald Trump. The lawsuit, being led by Texas officials, asserts the Obama administration overstepped its authority by going around Congress in creating DACA, which allows those who entered the country illegally as children to avoid deportation. The federal government is the main defendant in the suit. But under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice signaled in legal filings that it agreed with the plaintiff states that the policy was unlawful. That prompted Grewal, who was appointed by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in January, to seek to intervene in the case in May. The attorney general said in a June 26 Twitter post that "DOJ won`t defend DACA, so we will." Several individual undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as minors, known as Dreamers, have also intervened as defendants, it added.
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