15 states, DC sue Trump administration over ending DACA
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September 7, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifteen states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. government Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's plan to end protection against deportation for young immigrants who New York's attorney general labeled the "best of America."
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn asked a judge to strike down as unconstitutional the president's action involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
It called the move "a culmination of President Trump's oft-stated commitments ... to punish and disparage people with Mexican roots."
The attorneys genera...
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