By Nelson A. King
New York Attorney General
Letitia James has scored another
major victory for hundreds
of thousands of Caribbean and
other “Dreamers” who are eligible
for Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) and who
were at risk of deportation by the
Trump administration.
A United States federal court
on Saturday issued an order
granting James’ request for partial
summary judgment, ruling
that Chad Wolf, the agency official,
who, in July 2020, purported
to shut down new DACA applications
and cut back the length of
DACA renewals, was not lawfully
serving as Acting Secretary of
the US Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) at the time.
DACA is an Obama administration
program that protected
about 700,000 young Caribbean
and other immigrants, known as
“Dreamers,” from deportation.
After the US Supreme Court
ruled in June that the Trump
administration’s attempts to cancel
DACA were unlawful, the program
was supposed to resume.
Instead, the DHS announced
that new DACA applications
would not be granted and that
Wolf had made other interim
changes to DACA through a
memorandum issued on July 28,
while he considered whether to
fully rescind DACA.
In August, James co-led a
coalition of 17 attorneys general
across the US in two filings
against President Donald J.
Trump, the DHS, Wolf, US Citizenship
and Immigration Services
(USCIS) and US Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), asking the court to vacate
the Wolf memo as unlawful.
“The Supreme Court already
ruled that President Trump’s
attempts to unfairly punish
‘Dreamers’ was unlawful, but
now another federal court has
ruled that this administration’s
attempts to circumvent the
courts in an effort to target and
punish innocent young people
is just as unlawful,” James told
Caribbean Life.
“Time and time again,
this outgoing administration
attempted to use young immigrants
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as political scapegoats,”
she added. “America is where
these young people have gone to
school, where they have worked,
where they have paid taxes,
where they have raised families,
and where they have continued
to be vital members of our communities.
“Our coalition will not hesitate
to use every tool at our
disposal to continue to protect
these young people in every way
possible,” James affirmed.
“Dreamers” are Caribbean and
other foreign-born young people
who came to the United States at
a young age and now identify as
Americans.
James said most have no
memory of or connection with
the country where they were
born, and that many don’t speak
any language other than English.
Under immigration law before
the DACA program, the New
York attorney general said most
of these young people had no
protection against deportation,
even though they had lived most
their lives in the United States.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks at a
news conference in New York, U.S., June 11, 2019. REUTERS /
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Since 2012, she said more
than 825,000 young people,
who were brought to the United
States at a young age, were
promised that, if they came out
of the shadows, they could legally
work, study, serve in the military
and raise families in the United
States without fear of arrest or
deportation.
After Trump ordered his
administration to change the
policy in 2017 and break the
promises made to these “Dreamers,”
a prolonged legal battle
began in September 2017 that
made its way through multiple
courts before landing, in a combined
case, at the US Supreme
Court.
Court rules against Trump’s latest
immigration order on ‘Dreamers’
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