By Maria Sacchetti
...The order issued late (click here) Tuesday by U.S. District Judge William Alsup says safeguards against deportation must remain in place for the nearly 690,000people in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program while a legal challenge to ending the program proceeds.
It remained unclear Wednesday when the DACA recipients, who were brought to this country illegally as children and are known as “dreamers,” could resume applying for renewals of their work permits as a result of the California ruling, which Alsup said should apply nationwide. Advocates said it would depend on the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the program.
The Trump administration has vowed to challenge Alsup’s ruling.
“They can’t go back and renew today,” said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center. “We expect there to be a lot of confusion in communities about what that means.”...
The undocumented and the Dreamers will never win favor from the Trump administration. It doesn't matter how hard one works, loves the USA, have residential longevity or contribute immensely to the USA economy, the only respite is to find or develop sanctuary cities. For cities that have the leanings of protecting the Dreamers, there is a path.
November 21, 2017
The Trump administration cannot withhold federal money (click here) to punish local governments for their noncompliance with immigration authorities, according to a ruling by a federal judge in California.
In an order announced Monday, Judge William Orrick permanently blocked the policy, issued as one of President Trump's earliest executive orders, ruling it was "unduly coercive" and violated the separation of powers.
"The defunding provision instructs the Attorney General and the Secretary to do something that only Congress has the authority to do – place new conditions on federal funds," he wrote.
The judge had previously issued a temporary injunction blocking the policy, as did a judge in Chicago. "This order plows no new ground," Orrick wrote — although this injunction, unlike the previous ones, is permanent....
The undocumented and the Dreamers will never win favor from the Trump administration. It doesn't matter how hard one works, loves the USA, have residential longevity or contribute immensely to the USA economy, the only respite is to find or develop sanctuary cities. For cities that have the leanings of protecting the Dreamers, there is a path.
November 21, 2017
The Trump administration cannot withhold federal money (click here) to punish local governments for their noncompliance with immigration authorities, according to a ruling by a federal judge in California.
In an order announced Monday, Judge William Orrick permanently blocked the policy, issued as one of President Trump's earliest executive orders, ruling it was "unduly coercive" and violated the separation of powers.
"The defunding provision instructs the Attorney General and the Secretary to do something that only Congress has the authority to do – place new conditions on federal funds," he wrote.
The judge had previously issued a temporary injunction blocking the policy, as did a judge in Chicago. "This order plows no new ground," Orrick wrote — although this injunction, unlike the previous ones, is permanent....
