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What is happening in the Batalla Vidal case in New York?
On April 4, 2022, the Batalla Vidal plaintiffs (a nationwide class of all those who hold DACA or are DACA eligible) had a pre-motion conference with the court in the Eastern District of New York. With Congress having failed to act and a proposed new DACA regulation still unfinalized, plaintiffs asked the New York court for relief for the approximately 80,000 individuals who applied for DACA after the court ordered the government to accept and adjudicate first-time applications in December 2020, but whose applications were stalled when a Texas federal court ordered the government to stop granting initial DACA applications in July 2021. We explained to the New York court that there is a space between the New York order and the Texas order that would allow the New York court to provide meaningful relief to the 80,000 first-time DACA applicants who applied during that period and whose applications are still in limbo. The New York court asked plaintiffs to submit briefs on two possible options: (1) the possibility of ordering the government to process first-time DACA applications submitted between December 2020 and July 2021 up to the point of, but not including, a grant or denial, and (2) some form of interim relief to those 80,000 DACA applicants that would last until their applications are ultimately adjudicated. The briefing will be completed on June 6, and the New York court may schedule another conference thereafter.
What does this mean?
Plaintiffs believe the government took actions that violated the New York court order. Specifically, the New York court had ordered the federal government to accept and adjudicate first-time DACA applications. Later on, the Texas court ordered that the government could not grant first-time applications. The government interpreted the Texas court’s decision as forcing it to not process and adjudicate first-time DACA applications that had been pending before July 16, 2021, when the Texas court issued its decision, despite the fact that these applicants paid filing fees and filed at a time when the government was obligated to process those applications pursuant to the New York court’s December 2020 order. Further, the government interpreted the Texas order as barring it from processing renewal requests for DACA recipients whose DACA expired more than one year ago, because the government treats those applications as initial applications without justification.
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