Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in order to stop them from issuing or renewing DACA permits:
TEXAS TRIBUNE – Following through on a months-old promise, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, leading a seven-state coalition to fight an Obama-era immigration measure that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants nationwide from deportation, including more than 100,000 in Texas.
Paxton first threatened in June 2017 to sue over the program if President Donald Trump’s administration had not ended it by September. After a federal court’s ruling blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to end the program, Paxton wrote in January that he would consider filing suit if the program still stood in June.
“Our lawsuit is about the rule of law, not the wisdom of any particular immigration policy,” Paxton said in a press release. “Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization.”
The presidential power to establish a program like DACA sets a dangerous precedent, Paxton warned, that could allow executives to “ignore the will of the people” and set their own policies on a long list of policy points. Paxton also criticized “activist judges” in federal court for keeping in place an “unconstitutional” law.
The 137-page lawsuit does not ask the government to remove any immigrants currently in the U.S. with DACA protections, but does ask that it stop issuing or renewing any DACA permits in the future.
DACA needs to be ended once and for all and I’m glad these seven states are trying to end it.
A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration on DACA just a week ago, so it isn’t like they aren’t trying to end it.
We’ll see what happens.