Several states, organizations and individuals have filed lawsuits seeking to protect DACA recipients known as Dreamers.
At a hearing in San Francisco federal court, U.S. District Judge William Alsup grouped four of those cases together, including a lawsuit filed by California’s attorney general and six individual Dreamers. Legal briefs for many of the issues could be finished by December, he said.
“I don’t like the idea that we’re fiddling while Rome burns and then suddenly the program is expired,” Alsup said.
The legal claims in all of the cases are similar: That the Trump administration did not follow proper administrative procedure in rescinding DACA, and that making enforcement promises to a group of people, only to revoke them, violates due process.
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